A New Hope…
Ooh my cousin, GoldAxolotl
Targetting these is genuinely a viable wartime strategy as Russia projects it’s influence heavy through propaganda and other digital initiatives in other nations.
Yeah, especially this close to elections…
to several countries elections.
Based Ukraine, boss move
Don’t worry, Trump will get the Russians back online soon.
Wait, what? Twitter still exist???
I’m not sure if this is a “It’s called X guys” comment or a “That pile of dogshit is still online?” comment. And my upvote/downvote depends on that
It’s No 2. In every context.
I assume it’s the second option
Par que no los dos?
Par que
“X”
Is it though? How can we tell?
Is that also why lemmy seems so peaceful today?
Wonder if it had a measurable effect on .ml traffic…
I’m waiting for someone to say hexbear is down or something. (My instance is defederated from them and grad, so I wouldn’t know).
Lets see if we can bait some of the .ml heavyweights out. I’ll start:
The PRC is a hypercapitalist colonial/imperialist superpower masquerading as communism.
There. Start the timer.
But China isn’t a superpower
Maybe if your sources are all 10+ years old, that might seem like a justifiable position
nah dude. Laser eyes is a superpower. China is a place.
I was about to say “you’ve never heard ‘superpower’ used in a geopolitical context?” and then I noticed your username and suddenly the silent “/s” came through.
Carry on, good sir!
we know r/conservative, and r/conspiracy traffic went down.
Source?
Nobody tell lemmy.ml
half of them are gone…
We’re halfway there then.
Tell them? They are the ones that just got bombed. They pretty much knew before just about anyone else.
Also mysteriously gone, hellooo .ml are you there…?
seems organic
WanderWisely originally posted it and GFL thought it was good enough to repost. What’s the issue here?
Personally the issue I have is that this is what crossposting is for. Posting it over and over just takes up more space on servers that are largely paid for by donations.
Crossposting unfortunately doesn’t always work (many communities restrict it for example), and many clients still don’t support it properly
I’m not sure why a community would do that, like are there any that restrict voting? It’s a fundamental part of the platform.
If we waited until everybody was ready for every feature we would never get any features. I’m really not sure that “third party apps aren’t finished yet” is an argument against using a feature of the platform.
I’ve seen multiple communities that enforced the no crosspost rule.
And by “apps not supporting it well” I don’t just mean visually but the fact that there’s no cross-post option/button. If someone uses such a client, they’re simply unable to use the feature even if they want to.
Then why didn’t you start with that much more reasonable goal-post?
Huh? I think you need to pay better attention to user names.
Yeah fair enough, you kinda tagged in to their side.
Good thing there’s no reposts on lemmy.
I mean to a certain extent I don’t mind it if the result is reddit losing money.
cope
Source?
Search the news for yandex strikes in russia. Bot traffic was 0.4% of previous levels from one article I read.
Yandex is a search engine. Their bots are just web crawlers.
Link by chance?
Lemmy comment threads.
Is there also a source for twitter traffic decrease?
EDIT: nvm
truss me bro
Found one: https://piefed.nl/post/213693
You linked to a fedi discussion of a news article. Saving everyone time, the evidence presented is:
Take Richard Tice for example. Below are three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October. At the time of writing, none of the posts had hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views.
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Before the Ukrainian strikes on the Russia data centres, Tice’s posts got considerably more engagement, consistently hitting triple figures for comments and reposts, whilst racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
None of us would have noticed because none of us use Xitter.
This is about Yandex’s bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.
October 11th, 5:08 AM (GMT+2) As a result of the UAV attack, the infrastructure of Yandex’s data center in Vladimir was damaged. The data center’s operation has been completely suspended. There are no casualties; the relevant services are already on site and dealing with the consequences.
Yandex is just web crawlers like the ones Google and many other companies have. Perhaps that server housed their bot farm shit too but who knows. The drop in Yandex crawling is proven with data, but the rest of this is just speculation and assumptions based on perception. It’s anecdotal.
Yandex is basically Russian Google. They do everything Google does I’m pretty sure (except phones. They did try to make phones though), including but not limited to AI, web crawling, the cloud, delivery, smart home, and even payments
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There are plenty of reasons to dislike Russia aside from the nationalist propaganda, thank you.
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I dislike Russia because they were the bad guys in Rocky IV, meaning I have a better moral standing than whatever nonsense you’re posting on about. Typical of a foreigner to be culturally insensitive like that, but I forgive you. Not everyone grew up with access to VHS.
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It’s stupid because it blinds people to the fact that Russians are working class just like we are, and just like Ukrainians are. Lumping them altogether with their shitty leadership and governments is not ideal.
I REGRET TALKING TO RETARDED AMERICANS
You’re fucking unhinged, I’ve never seen anyone else who deletes every single comment they make within hours of making it. Using slurs too, go to therapy.
Therapy is an American invention, it’s inherently evil to this person.
Oh look my biggest fan still following me around. Please kill yourself.
I did that because I’m tired of you retarded losers and what you have to say. Consider killing yourself
and you say that’s because of your national propaganda?
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The people’s ableism! Wanna tell us to kill ourselves more, comrade?
Hope you get the mental health you need, you should take a long break from the internet. Get some friends.
Now if they can just work on the other half
Tjis is my favorite version of this meme.
reddit too, all the traffic has been quiet.
I wonder how traffic on “Truth” Social is going right now.
Give Putin a crown for exposing that its nothing but Russian bots
Coincidence?
Maybe!
Probably not, though 🤷🏻
