The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.

Roskosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh. I don't see any hexbears or Lemmygrads on this thread. Interesting. Can't complain.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

God it is validating to see you say that. I'm new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It's exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not communists, they are russian apologists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They're tankies.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tankies used to care about communism. Now they're just anti-western. They will not question if Russia or China are actually communist because it doesn't matter. They don't care about worker protections or freedoms. They only care about "owning the west."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I find them rather funny... I'm antiamerican and leftist but many seem to think that it's a binary and we must choose.

Having actually lived and worked in China for the CPC, I find their idolizing of the modern Chinese nation-state a bit laughable

[–] uis 6 points 1 year ago

Fuck Putin, fuck Stalin. Peace to world, glory to science and production, mechanize ancillary work, reduce manual labour.

Here's a little bit of communism you didn't want.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not communists. (Also, most of them have never made a commit. They didn't do anything.)

Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn't matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can't own it.

I don't care about their personal beliefs of any one of the contributers. As long as the software works, that's fine. I like rocketry, but the nazis contributed a lot to that. It doesn't matter though. It doesn't change the function of it.

[–] uis -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn't matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can't own it.

You sound like communist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I would mostly agree with that. More of an anarchist bent, but sure. I'm not a tanky. I have no issue with communism, but I do have an issue with authoritarianism, especially authoritarianism that uses the name communism as a cover while not protecting worker rights and freedoms.

[+] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Intralexical 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God it is validating to see you say that. I’m new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It’s exhausting.

Those communists are the ones who built the platform you’re speaking on.

I just meant this place wouldn’t exist without some of these “communists” and since they made it and were here for years before most of us, it’s not surprising there’s a lot of communist content.

You sound like you're implying that because they made significant technical contributions to useful software, then that automatically validates their political beliefs, and /u/[email protected] should just put up with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, and the software is pretty good. Nazi rockets were also good. It doesn't mean anything else is good or valid about them. I don't care if the creator is a tanky (definitely don't care if they're a communist) to enjoy the software. It is a useless point to say they created it as a way to justify anything else being good.

It's an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And? They don't run anything but their own instances.

Its FOSS. they don't have any ownership over the platform as a whole. If they started trying to fuck with the lemmy source code for their own agenda, then we'd just fork it and carry on as before

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They've been real quiet since that probe dropped 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Lemmygrad defederated from this instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Could be. They aren't on my home instance. I've seen several threads about this and literally none of them, as far as I could see, had any comments from them.