Gregory's ServerFor some reason Google thinks that Mastodon for Android is a language learning app..?
Eugen Rochko
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Herr Brainf Ücker
@Gargron nope. I know russian for all of my life, and it doesn't gives me any advantages. And never did.
Eugen Rochko
@brainfucker It's very expressive and you can access some very good literature in its original form
Herr Brainf Ücker
@Gargron which literature written in russian is actually could be called "good"? As for me, 90% of so-called "russian" literature is depressive novels with a plenty of empty words. I know what I say: I used to be an editor-in-chief in Ukrainian publishing house before the russian-Ukrainian war started. That's my position, of course, but anyway...
Eugen Rochko
@brainfucker I think you're going a bit scorched earth because of Putin's war. I don't think there's a need to involve the language and the literature that predates that despot by centuries.
Eugen Rochko
@brainfucker Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita is one of my favourite books. I'm also a fan of the works of Daniil Kharms. 
Григорий Клюшников
Herr Brainf Ücker, the fact that some bad people use something — a language, a tool, a technology — for bad things, doesn't make it bad. Every terrorist drank water. Doesn't mean that drinking water is bad.
Herr Brainf Ücker
@grishka I understand that, but this question is far more complicated in Ukrainian case. Check out our history, especially in the part of forcing Ukrainians to use russian in different centuries.
flutergork🌻️🇨🇦️ 🇺🇦
@Gargron Maybe that's what Google search told them. 🤦♂️    
infinite love ⴳ
@Gargron weird, you'd think they would correctly classify it like all the other fedi apps, as a dating app 
David Blue ※
@Gargron honestly, in many ways, it is? I say we pitch these services against the experience of browsing an un-language-filtered feed for a month and see what happens. 
wilkie (quilt appreciator)
@Gargron I have learned a lot of language here. like "awoo" and alternative definitions of "toot" :blobcatcoffee:   |
@Gargron russian language. I wonder if anyone needs it. 😄