A thread about this is literally pinned on r/europe.
Edit: Also on front page of r/popular with >66k upvotes.
Then it will be a disappointment.
You don’t have to protest at Washington DC.
Since you're drawing parallels to Serbia - yes, you do want to protest as close to the centre of power as possible, and that's what Serbs did.
You don’t think the people in Serbia didn’t drive or ride 2-3 hours to get there?
I don't. The driving distance between Belgrade and Novi Sad, the second largest Serbian city, is ~1 h. And Belgrade by itself already has more than enough population for massive protests, because it has four times the population of Novi Sad and around 1/4 of the population of the entire country. This degree of centralisation and physical proximity is completely incomparable to US. US geography significantly diffuses the power of protests.
Also the Serbian protests have been initiated and are led by students who in general do not drive around much, it's safe to assume most don't have their own cars, etc. IIRC, some of those who participated in the yesterday protest were brought by buses to Belgrade, which was organised ahead of time by the protesters.
The estimates for the Belgrade protest go as far as 800k participants.
Serbia has a population of 6.6 million.
AI je dosadan. Ovaj lik je dosta "rambling", nije ugodno za čitati ali je IMO zanimljivije.
I’m not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn’t be surprised if they copy from each other.
It is unclear to me what's the method to upload to #ebooks. I've uploaded some obscure books to Libgen in the past, so I checked whether they're available on #ebooks, and they're not. So... they don't mirror each other. I checked both UnderNet and IRCHighway, and the latter even directed me to these websites in case I'm looking for textbooks. It doesn't seem like an adequate replacement for LG, at least for my purposes.
I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.
As I've said, this is not a big issue with the sites listed on the uptime tracker I linked. Libgen.is and Z-library have neither (the latter has daily download limits per IP), AA has a countdown (not always), and libgen.li has ads (which I had no idea about until I saw other people mentioning it, thanks to uBlock).
If I've understood it correctly, this isn't a lawsuit over the recent discovery of Meta downloading terabytes of books from Libgen?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't #ebooks basically just mirror Libgen?
Among the major book downloading websites, only libgen.li has ads, and only Anna's Archive has a countdown.
It's been offline for like a month, maybe more, I haven't kept track. I don't know any details, maybe there's info on their forums, but overall the owners are quite secretive.
That would mean 90% of Belgrade was in the streets that day. As intense the popular support of the protests is, that number is surely a strech. 800k is already quite mind-boggling by the standards of the country... actually, by the standards of any country.
Edit: "The number of protesters present in Belgrade at the protest is disputed: the official government figure provided by MUP was 107,000, an analysis by the Archive of Public Meetings found there were between 275,000 and 325,000 present "with the possibility that the number was even higher,"[499] and Božo Prelević [sr], the former MUP minister, estimated there were at least half a million protesters.[500]" (Wikipedia)
The Reuters number was simply taken from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), which obviously preferred to keep the number low.