Maybe you could post a little introduction/welcome text post on the communities you want spared.
As long as there was warning, that seems like a good way to spare small communities that haven’t gotten off the ground while getting rid of squatters who aren’t interacting at all.
Oh so you mean she doesn’t work in a factory?
Or if you have to make a content scraper bot, why not say, a Reuters or AP breaking news bot instead of Reddit?
It’s a tactic as old as rebellion too, though.
“I’m a loyal follower of his majesty, it’s the good king’s advisors poisoning his mind!”
And then you ride that wave of legitimacy and popular policy (We’re gonna stop sending your kids to die for no reason!) into, well, something. Either power, force a compromise, or a horrible death. Seems like that last one was coming from all sides so why not gamble?
Either way I do not believe this is some 4D chess move by Putin. He could leave Ukraine today, throw a parade claiming victory, and I imagine the average Russian would just be glad it’s over.
Same, but I am optimistic that decentralization will lead to better options for dealing with the problems as they happen.
Might be unpolished, but at least it is ours.