• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Pavel Durov had to flee Russia after resisting Putin’s influence on VK. That’s public information known to everyone who cares to spend a minute reading his Wikipedia article.

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        5 hours ago

        The world isn’t that simple. It’s possible that things could have changed since the regime formally took over VK.

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    11 hours ago

    It’s basically a frontend to VK with functionality like that of Telegram.

    Funny how much you can do if you do it slowly. Say, if 10 years ago someone would say all of Russia is moving to the only state-approved IM which is the same as VK, I think there’d be riots, LOL, even in Russia, LOL, it’d be like blocking all porn.

    Since TG is most likely compromised, I think this won’t be a significant change really.

    Not being able to use WA for voice calls would suck though.