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China's objectively far more trustworthy than US, it's not even comparable.

I think the interesting part is just how deeply embedded China is in the supply chains for everything nowadays. Figuring out what parts are ultimately sourced from China is actually pretty difficult, and since US lacks domestic manufacturing capacity to have fully controlled domestic supply chains, it's in a vulnerable position vis-a-vis China. If US continues to escalate the trade war then China's response can be catastrophic for US economy, and if US is insane enough to actually goad China into a war then much of its military equipment may be vulnerable.

It actually does matter for the individual instances because the amount of content and interactions grows regardless which server users join because servers federate with each other. This is a fundamentally different dynamic from commercial walled gardens where each platform competes for users with every other.

sure, but it's still an indicator of growth and some percentage of users does stay active

lol, yeah hope they don't nuke the feeds

Feel free to spend the time to figure out how google works instead of trolling here.

Rediquette is making its way to Lemmy apparently.

Most likely, and this works well because it allows time for server capacity to grow and for wrinkles to get ironed out gradually. Fediverse would have a hard time absorbing millions of people all at once, but a gradual trickle of users allows things to grow organically.

So that would be the same images that’s been doing the rounds over the last week, but its far from your initial claim that

That's just one example, once you learn how google works you can see plenty of other similar stories in western media. Every time Ukraine does a push they lose multiple tanks and IFVs, this is documented. This has been going on for over two weeks now. Anybody capable of doing basic math can figure out that these numbers are in fact significant. Ukraine only got 60 or 80 leopoards, if they already lost 10% of that before even getting to the first line of defence that's obviously not going well. The fact that you keep pretending this isn't significant is pretty amazing to be honest.

I'm saying significant numbers have been confirmed by western media, here's just one example:

A group of Ukrainian soldiers taking a break from the fighting just outside the small town of Orikhiv, in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, told AFP they had lost most of their Bradleys.

Of nine vehicles attached to the group's mechanised infantry unit -- not the only one involved in the battle -- six were wrecked, three damaged but reparable, and one was unscathed.

This information isn't exactly hard to find, so not sure why you're acting like I'm saying something outlandish here.

and then China is going to collapse next

US has absolutely no say regarding where China builds infrastructure. China is currently the major trading partner for vast majority of countries in the world, and US isn't even a close second. And it's pretty clearly that lots of countries actually do want Chinese technology as evidenced by the fact that China is building infrastructure across the globe.