I love the fact this happened and I also love the fact how Ukraine is using my yearly donations in its fight against the russian regime ❤️
The bot traffic in question is indexing crawlers. Yandex is a search engine (among other things), there is nothing suggesting they’re hosting LLMs to run bot accounts
Well that’s weird. The community which removes all memes about Palestine leaves up political posts about Russia.
Tells you a lot about .world
Or maybe just the people running the community.
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.
Yeah this is largely disinformation: Yandex bot traffic drop isn’t Russian disinfo collapse | Cybernews
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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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.
and you say that’s because of your national propaganda?
I REGRET TALKING TO RETARDED AMERICANS
The people’s ableism! Wanna tell us to kill ourselves more, comrade?
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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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
A New Hope…
Ooh my cousin, GoldAxolotl
I wonder how traffic on “Truth” Social is going right now.
Give Putin a crown for exposing that its nothing but Russian bots
Don’t worry, Trump will get the Russians back online soon.
These should have been targeted every day for the last 10years, good job Ukraine
i guess that’s the plan going forward. also a good advert for self-hosting because a lot of data is going to get lost
It may be a good advert but it certainly isn’t helping the cost of hardware. Just increasing demand as other data centers must scale up to accommodate the change in network traffic.
it’s been a slow erosion of air defence over the years, finally now valuable targets in the major cities are routinely vulnerable.
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.
You don’t actually believe that, if you thought any instance had a lot of unlabeled bots, you’d just report them.
lol of course I don’t think it’s true, thats my point.
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.
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.
both .ml and hexbear have had zero downtime for october so far
Darn… Maybe the next datacenter will do it.
the server is in france so it would probably be a major incident if big Z attacked that
People downvoting the mention of France is perfectly valid
That says nothing about where the users are located
So you’re admitting you use ‘bot’ as a method of dehumanization instead of literally describing a process on a server.
e: and then later you think you can get away with incredulity at being called racist?
i’m in the us and have actually met other .ml users in person 😂
the xenophobic paranoia about us will never stop being hilarious tho
Awful curious for someone who self censored, lmao.
Time: Approx. 7 hours…
And where did I self-censor?
Are you timing your diarrhea cramps or something?
You’re choosing to censor yourself from the opinions of leftists.
“the opinions of leftists”
I get plenty of those, as I am one and interact among the rational segment of leftism. What I don’t waste my time on is fake-leftist shill accounts peddling disinformation on behalf of the imperial fascist financial oligarchy that is the Russian Federation.
So nice try trying to monopolize leftism, but it’s not working. Go peddle your caricature elsewhere.
Give me one single example from history when your strain of “rational leftism” has ever accomplished anything.
Good luck with that 👍
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!
Yes everyone having a different political opinion is a bot. If you ask me, that is not a civil comment. You’re maligning and dehumanizing anyone disagreeing with you.
we know r/conservative, and r/conspiracy traffic went down.
Source?
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”
reddit too, all the traffic has been quiet.
Nobody tell lemmy.ml
half of them are gone…
yall love making shit up
Watch out .ml aren’t known to have humour! (Or being historically accurate, but that’s another story).
Ah, the less intelligent half that is left has arrived 😜
It’s really funny seeing you guys yelling at ghosts.
It’s called laughing, and the ghosts are angry.
Who?
We’re halfway there then.
You can always just go back to reddit and never have to worry about talking to another leftist again.
So you moved from reddit to a leftist created space, find it too leftist, and want to force out the original inhabitants of the space?
Libs gonna colonize, lol
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…?
Yes? Wtf are you libs talking about, lmao.
Idk lmao…
I bet you don’t know what you’re talking about a lot, hey?
I’m right here, baby girl
Tjis is my favorite version of this meme.
