The effects of the ban are likely to hit the front lines in Ukraine as well, where both Kyiv and Moscow’s troops have been seen using Discord to coordinate drone operations.

Several videos posted online have shown uniformed men watching surveillance drone feeds on the platform, including one clip said to have captured the interior of a command post in Bakhmut.

  • IcePee@lemmy.beru.co
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    27 days ago

    Maybe it took this long to develop an alternative. They now have an alternative… Right? The Kremlin wouldn’t send it’s citizens off to fight without being sufficiently equipped… Right?

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        27 days ago

        They still have those wire phones with a hand crank.

        Good, because I don’t care how nice their soup cans are, there’s no way a string would be able to stay taut between Moscow and Donetsk.

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        27 days ago

        Relaying sensitive information over your own wires are a lot more secure then a privately owned service from a foreign country. It’s just a lot more cumbersome.

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        26 days ago

        You know there’s phones that don’t need a crank? The voice itself can be used to power the transmission. Its actually brilliant tech for a situation like this

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        27 days ago

        Don’t forget… the cans come full of potatoes so that’s like two tools in one!

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        26 days ago

        No, no. Its a tape recorder duct taped to a drone that carries messages back and forth like a carrier pidgin