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Hi, I'm developer of True Mafia (the largest Telegram game bot).

My project helps to entertain more than 20,000 Ukrainian children right now, while they are in bomb shelters. If the bot become stopped, they will cause inconvenience to parents during this difficult time. The civilian population needs support, and I help with this at my own expense.

But now I have a problem. Can't pay rent to my European servers even with my own money. So servers will be turned off and deleted soon...

I just wanna tell that payment restrictions work against Ukrainian people. Please, help to stop it.



How do you think, would I be able to pay for my hosting, if central office of my bank would be bombed?

And the value of that chat-bot is questionable, by the way :D. You just trying to plea for morality that you are helping children. By the way, bot has lots of ads.

And children in bomb shelter can play Mafia IRL, not using cell phones. (if there are more than 5 participants).

Not convincing.


I know it looks like a bad joke, but people really need an entertainment, even if the war is going. I'm not asking you to pay severs. I'm asking to make ability to spent my own money on it.

Are 3-4 advertising message per month - a "Lots of ads"? Seems you're not so familiar with the project.


Ok. I admit that perhaps there is not so much ads. But they present. So I guess it can pay for it's own servers. You told you are paying for it from your own expenses.


Just go to the streets, stop your bloody dictator killing those children.


Ukrainians defend their country, why Russians can't? Why Ukrainians dying while Russians afraid of spending night at police?


A nighgt? Lmao. You easaly get tortured and then get a 10 year sentence here for that stuff. People from 2011 protests are still in jail


Thats a funny argument, I didn’t see much germans succeeding in protesting against their bloody dictator in 1939.

Protests work if and only if the goverment is willing to allow them to happen and listen the croud.

Thats not the case in police and militarised state


Bro, it’s a police state. Putin has people beaten and jailed for years.


I urge you guys to start buying bitcoin and looking to replace all your services with platforms that accept bitcoin. You can get a VPS provider with bitcoin payments.

The whole situation sucks, but developers are resourceful and for all the bitcoin hate, here is literally the golden opportunity to use the damn thing. Use it. Binance didn’t even block Russian purchases just for this very reason.




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