US too. But why would US or Russia think about it while there is open border, welfare countries in EU? I'm pretty sure these both would prefer a non-stable, right wing managed EU.
As a Turk, I find them right. If you support attacks to Syria, you shouldn't be surprised when the Syrians come knocking at your door. If you support bombing Palestine, you still shouldn't be upset. This is a natural phenomenon. It's a matter of action and reaction.
Unfortunately the case of Syria applies to Turkey as well. We should have been impartial from the very beginning. However, Erdoğan, the leader of the Ummah, wanted to intervene, as usual.
Stop the service and inspect the machine for law violations. I'm ok to that. But proxying the network without a notice is literally spying.
Reverse the case, if a Chinese/Russian provider did this, would you still be OK? It's funny US and west countries blaming easterns for spying while doing far far more.
As a small instance owner, I can say its not sustainable. I’m paying approximately $40 monthly out of my pocket but with it, I have a non-defederated, long-term instance. So I don’t mind much, just enjoying Lemmy.
I think the real problem is not financial, but technical problems. For example, when a post is shared in an instance, that instance sends that activity to approximately 1000 other active instances. As a result, as the number of instances increases, the load on the network also increases. Ironically I think it should be the other way around :) I'm not sure how it will scale in the future.
In addition, since each instance keeps all the data in its own database, the database size of the instance with 1m users and the instance with 1k users is the same. In my opinion, this is what is really unsustainable.
Even Pakistan expelling them while Turkey welcoming both Pakistanis and Afghans and also Syrians.