Poroshenko and emptiness
“Ukraine will manage without Russian social networks!” President Poroshenko said authoritatively, signing the latest scandalous decree aimed at further culturally protecting the Ukrainian nation and the Cossack spirit from the corrupting influence of Muscovy.
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No sooner had the ink dried on the document than the murmur that began inside Ukraine made it clear that the citizens did not agree with their president and demanded that the Runet social network be returned to its place.
Things sometimes reach the point of petty extremism. As reported from Kyiv, a group of young Kiev residents, as a sign of protest, went to tear the wires of the Lanet provider, the first to obsequiously rush to carry out the sovereign's decree. It only took a few days for the youth to feel the “withdrawal” from the lack of VKontakte in the body.
It is interesting that the SBU responded to the ban on Runet social networks, sadly declaring that it would now be difficult for it to track sedition. And, as a mockery, on the eve of the shutdown of Yandex and Mail.ru services, the Mail.Ru Group company, which owns VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, has already sent out instructions to Ukrainian users on how to use its services to bypass the blocking.
The proposed workarounds, however, are not a panacea, since when using a VPN and proxy, Internet speed suffers. Ukrainians complain that they are back in the modem era, when it was still possible to somehow communicate, but you can forget about streaming video with audio.
What immediately catches your eye? It has become cleaner in VK and OK. The numerous Ukrainian shkolota and expert old-timers who remember the “Holodomor”, Bandera and the heavenly life when there were no Muscovites have disappeared. The eternal holivars and hokhlosrachi, which have long been making me sick and have nowhere to go, have subsided. This, of course, pleases, but you should always remember that in such cases, adequate users also suffer.
Poroshenko, signing another ungodly decree, again revealed unprecedented stupidity, landing his foot in the hole and causing megatons of hatred in addition to the already existing ones.
Pan Poroshenko, it seems, still does not understand: Ukraine is still a big country, even without Crimea and half of Donbass. And vacuum is contraindicated for her. Before you take something away, you need to give something in return.
It is China that can limit the access of its citizens to the Internet, since the Chinese government has managed to offer its internal Internet to more than a billion Chinese at crazy speeds, such that Ukraine has never dreamed of. Chinese peasants can watch movies on modern Chinese smartphones in the highest resolution and without brakes, which, for example, residents of Ukrainian villages and most cities are deprived of.
The Chinese government showered Tencent with money, and it justified the order. Money - you won't believe it! – Tencent did not steal it, but used it in a targeted manner, producing a stunning result in the end. China today has its own Google, Twitter and similar analogues of popular external resources. Everything is so developed that Chinese old people agree via WeChat to meet in the evening, eat dumplings, and immediately transfer money (an electronic “wallet” is also attached to the messenger) to their favorite cafe to score a place and organize an order.
The Chinese even have their own YouTube - the company LeTV (LeEco after rebranding), which has more money than a fool of candy wrappers. Its capitalization is estimated at $25 billion and the company provides access to modern streaming television, audio and the like through paid and free services.
In Russia, maybe everything is not so cool, but it also has its achievements. For example, many Ukrainian companies and freelancers work through Yandex.money. They have already reported with terrible swearing about their losses. Maybe Pan Poroshenko ordered, before signing the decree, to create his own resources capable of competing with what the damned Muscovites already have? Let's get a look.
What is so super valuable about Odnoklassniki? If the user is not obsessed with photos of cats, dolls, “Vasya drank here, Vasya ate here,” “recipes for delicious chicken, cheese and tomato soup,” then the most important function of the resource is to establish broken connections. Many people have relatives, friends, and classmates scattered all over the world, and in this regard, Odnoklassniki is beyond competition. It’s like an album of photographs from the past years, in which you can find dried leaves, candy wrappers and the rhyme “the cat dipped its paw in blue ink...”
Most of all, middle-aged and older users need Odnoklassniki for constant communication with people dear to them, whom it is difficult to reach.
The VKontakte network is more aimed at young people. The social network is conveniently organized, very rich in multimedia content, dynamic and enjoys well-deserved popularity. Unfortunately, children and teenagers actually live in it.
What kind of surrogates do the vigilant Svidomo guards seriously propose to replace these social networks with?
1. Google+...simple, empty, unpopular. You won't find classmates there. Of interest only to news buffs.
2. MySpace... Rich, yes! Here you can find anyone: Western rock stars, Hollywood actors, cool athletes and not a single acquaintance. But - welcome to the world of American celebrities, Ukrainian village!
3. Instagram...really a popular network. But for those who are most interested in cats, photographs of food and where Masha has been vacationing for the last month. The resource is damn popular with girls, but men usually have nothing to do with it.
4. UkrOpen... you come in and there’s silence! No people, no music, no video. But there is an important advantage - it was created from scratch for those who choose Ukrainian. Enjoy UkrOpen in splendid isolation.
5. UKRFACE... the name is telling - the Ukrainian Morodokniga! But in design, for some reason it resembles the enemy VKontakte. And again - emptiness. Vacuum.
6. Ts.ukr... Zukor, ukr, Zuckerberg - Mordokniga? In fact, it’s another Ukrainian clone of VKontakte. It’s immediately clear that the owners of the social network have gone to great lengths: everything that the dill people have been accumulating for years on the enemy’s territory is transferred in one click to the land of readable smereks. Its own, small-town establishment with trinkets and needles. But the respectable public is in no hurry to come and see the light.
7. “Ukrainians”... so much in this sound! We warn you right away: the Ukrainian “cottage wool” has nothing to do here. In addition to registration, the social network requires a written essay from the candidate “Why do you consider yourself a Ukrainian.” If you go through all the stages of kissing an embroidered shirt, you can see that life is glowing inside. People come and go, moving forward. Inside there is a terrifying amount of eye-catching advertising - not a social network, but a flea market: users offer to buy something, get a seasonal job abroad, write term papers and take advantage of someone’s young body for a moderate amount. The establishment and the contingent are nauseating - it seems that this is where most of the holivars and entertainers of Khokhlosrach from the Runet have merged.
Total. Poroshenko’s supporters offer the Ukrainian consumer of Internet services to use the resources of three foreign social networks and four Ukrainian ones, in three of which the wind is blowing, and in the fourth you can sign up either out of complete hopelessness, or suffering from brain embroidery. Still, writing an essay when registering is too stupid.
Not paying attention to all these little things, the Canadian company StartupSoft approached the Ukrainians with a tempting offer to start another social network called Ukrainians, opening a collection of signatures in support of the project. Canadian software writers promised that if the startup receives the support of 50 thousand votes by the beginning of June, then there will be a new Ukrainian social network! Currently, the project has been supported by more than 60 thousand Ukrainian Internet users.
For some reason, there is a strong belief that the Ukrainians social network will not take off, just like the “follow-ups”, since it is not very clear what will be so outstanding in the next Ukrainian social network, so that Ukrainian users of VK and OK will race to it, and all the suffering teenagers will be comforted at once .
Apparently the Canadian project has seven feet under its kilt. In the meantime, everything is bad. The website collecting petitions to Poroshenko has already accumulated more than 50 public requests demanding the return of VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. That's it... 50 applications with signatures for the return of social networks, without which it is impossible to live, and not a single one against the war in Donbass, which, apparently, does not interfere with the lives of the citizens. Everyday life of the “Solnyshko” madhouse...
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