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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
still no viable alternatives to Twitter, so I think it's just another straw on the camel's back and not the final one. definitely fucked long-term but the monopoly it possesses will shield it from the natural decay cycle for longer than would be usual in a more genuinely free market situation and its use as a propaganda dissemination device for America will also prop it up
a website isn't dying when a substantial portion of its activity (and thus profit) comes from people saying that the website is screwed and dead; it's dying when nobody even cares to post that it's dying anymore and are all somewhere else, posting shitty memes or whatever the average person does on social media
I agree and guess it wouldn't die immediatly because of that, but a platform like twitter needs to attract new users constantly (assuming it is still mostly finances vie ads/user data). And putting a paywall to basic functionality that used to be free will deter most from joining. That will lead to decreasing user numbers over time.
what ever happened to bluesky? does anyone actually use that?
Bluesky is currently at 5.3 million users and climbing, while Twitter is at 335 million monthly active users and falling. difficult to extrapolate given that Twitter's userbase has only been falling since 2022 but a back-of-the-envelope calculation assuming a linear downfall says that Twitter will reach 0 users in about 20 years. This almost certainly won't happen; sudden events will probably cause periodic exoduses that then form a positive feedback loop of having less content to look at on Twitter and more content on other websites. My personal inkling is that the crossover point between Twitter and Bluesky will be in 2030, give or take a couple years
I'm just glad I signed up on there early enough to get my first name as a handle. there's like 2 other people in the world who share my name and they got the gmail and twitter username first. and my gmail account is from 2008!
do you have to get invited? how does all that work
nope it's open now, you can just make an account
Threads has 150 million monthly users if Zuck is to be trusted. Probably the bigger threat here
I actually completely forgot about Threads, I hear about it even less than Bluesky despite it having a much larger userbase. Is there a big overlap between them and Twitter's audiences?
I haven't used it at all honestly, I just wanted to see what they're numbers were
threads is the gas leak social network
wow this was a really funny read! thanks for sharing
It still exist and has open registration now, its still small and dominated by libs, i think it will continue growing while twitter slowly dies under musk