So it's probably time to add some moderators, not necessarily because things are out of hand or anything, but because I'd like someone to actually nurture this community like I don't have time to. I'm talking about, for example, having regular pinned conversational live update threads, forming rules, all sorts of community building elements. On a lot of these it would probably be helpful to look at how the mod team over at r/Ukraine has handled things.

More specifically I'd really like to find someone Ukrainian who speaks the language to join the team, but that might be a bit much to ask at least in the short term.

Either way, consider this an invitation to apply if you think you'd be a good fit and you'd like to help nurture this community and help cleaning up spam and vile conduct. You'll need to message here in the thread since I believe Lemmy works in funny ways and you promote people through comments.

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[–] Marduk73 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm eyeballing this hoping it gets to levels of r/ukraine and r/ukraine_conflict

I've been supplementing that with https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/ That seems to help.

[–] Valmond 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wondered about that "Pravda" part (the name of a notoriously lying state magasine from the URSS/Russia) and also about the .com. being in the middle and not the end. It seems .ua means Ukraine so it should be an Ukrainian site at least. I mean maybe 'everyone' knows this website and I do not, if so apologies!

Any info gladly received!

And if course Slava Ukraine!!

[–] lenux12343 11 points 1 year ago

Ukrainska Pravda was founded by Georgiy Gongadze who was murdered by the Ukrainian government in the year 2000 for digging into corruption. The website/news agency has retained their core beliefs in spreading truth. Musk wanted to buy their .Com domain a few years back to start his own Pravda, but they said no

[–] Marduk73 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know much but i thought the same thing. I thought pravda was a lying propaganda rag. But like you, i saw the .ua. And I've been looking at it awhile alongside the old ukraine reddits. The posts are very similar in flavor.

[–] lesserprophet 3 points 1 year ago

The name of the newspaper translates to Ukrainian Truth and from what I was able to dig up seems to be a fairly reputable source, surprisingly. Here's a writeup on the Boston Globe website: Article

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

.com.ua is just the Ukranian version of .co.uk AFAIK. Not all countries allow you to register a second-level domain for their respective ccTLD, UK being a prime example.

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

Agreed - those subs are one of the very few Reddit things I check anymore, largely because there’s not really a viable alternative that operates on a comparable scale.

[–] margaritox 3 points 1 year ago

I’m Ukrainian and that sub has been a huge source of support since the full-scale invasion started. It was a hard decision, but I quit reddit, and that community, cold-turkey. And you know what, I’ve been doing good so far. I’m excited to see what the communities on lemmy will become.