That’s strange. A lot of people from Russia continue contributing on GitHub without any issues.

What are we going to do about it?

Nothing. People move to reddit and discord for a reason. If forums were worth saving, this problem wouldn’t have existed.

We got gimp 3 before half life 3.

by ditching the Karma farmers

How, exactly? Decentralization aside, lemmy is a reddit clone, but on a smaller scale. The same human psychology that drives reddit also drives lemmy. I think your assessment is more applicable to mastodon because there you really have to figure out how to fill your feed with content.