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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers? (www.theverge.com)
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[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 120 points 1 day ago

Extremely lazy copy paste:

Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?

Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web.

It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overallcontinues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online?

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 41 points 1 day ago

Thanks. OPs should do that anyhow.

It stands to reason that attacking a few servers won't stop all of Russia's hybrid warfare, but it also stands to reason that there is some effect.

In any case, I hope Ukraine continues to succesfully attack (hopefully without civilian casualties) Russian infrastructure. We all benefit from that.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago

If the goal is to gut down on fake posts, it'd be a lot more helpful if Ukraine were to drone a few troll farms. It might alos have a positive effect on the US November elections.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

They really should.

But there are a lot of trollfarms now. And the US is running the majority of the ones that operate in the US you can be sure. With these chatbots, it's about to make the internet much more dead than it is already.

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 21 hours ago

‘Meddling with the US elections, eh?’ An imaginable question of the (bought and promoted by Russia) US president to Ukraine.

I really like the irony of it. If Ukraine wants to affect the elections in their favour, they should target the bot farms indeed.

[-] UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

(Dead link) ~~https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.ml~~ shows no change.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

This domain is for sale

???

[-] UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Okay that’s strange um I guess you can use others:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/instance-monitoring-sites

fediDB still works

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

OK thanks um I guess

edit: pixelfed.social - for photo sharing only - is the 2nd largest in most metrics.

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