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.
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.
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.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers
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:
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.
https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136