Apparently engagement on that other site's r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
How about we start blocking Yandex ASN?
There's a conspicuous number of comments on this post eager to affirm correlation is not causation.
At first I thought the meme was referring to all the people I severed ties with, because to them, torture, genocide and college rape are controversial and require nuance.
You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.
It's almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.
Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.
I'll be the idiot who admits to being an idiot. What does this graph mean? Is that just raw mentions of "r/conservative" across the internet as grouped by day? Is it meaningful to see spikes alternating with dips? If what the meme is saying were true, what would this graph look like and why? I'm far from an expert in this and I'm curious.
I don't really see how mentions of the subreddit is meaningful of how many bots there were. There are so many posts about r/conservative being down from other subreddits that I can't see the correlation
Same, which is why I'm assuming that I'm misinterpreting what I'm looking at. My interpretation doesn't make any sense, but for somebody who's never looked at whatever that is, that's what it looks like it's saying? It's probably obvious to people who look at that shit every day, but I'm not sure if the "mentions" are correlating to what's in the search bar looking thing or what. Or maybe "mentions" is jargon with a different meaning? Idk.
It's not mentions of r/conservative, it's mentions (posts and comments) in the subreddit.
There seems to be a big difference on Twitter tho: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-see-social-media-engagement-drop-after-strikes-on-russia-data-centres-410517/
Account of Reform's Richard Tice, which has 400k followers and who normally has 100k+views on their posts and thousands of likes and comments now struggles to reach above 35k views and even 100 comments and retweets.
Nigel Farage himself with his 2.3m followers has also lost a lot of "engagement", with his content normally reaching hundreds of thousands of views, and now he's struggling to hit 100k and gets only a fraction of the normal amount of comments and likes.
Edit: I hypothesize that reddit bots are less hosted on Yandex and more on other (western) infrastructure, while Twitter bots seem to come mainly from Yandex.
There could be multiple reasons for this.
what's up with your data from 14-18 of august?
Because it's a quick search and not a dedicated query, I guess the historical data collection is stopping at 56 days instead of going all the way to 60. Same thing happens when I look at any other sub.
I bet those guys on the left are pissed off. They all agreed they were all going to wear the little black hat but then fucking Chad turned up with his big white hat like a dick.
I'd love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.
I wanna see the lemmy.ml numbers
Based on what I have seen and the people I have engaged with on ML I think most of them on here are just completely brainwashed by Chinese and Russian propaganda. But I'm sure there are bots or Russian trolls as well.
Wouldn’t want to get a brain disease, washing often is healthy
IRA?
Ireland Republican Army, those mfers won't quit until everyone celebrate St Patrick's Day.
Or this is a typo.
Fun fact: in the UK, you can't legally say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they're "terrorists", but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.
Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm
its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.
Where's the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.
At best what I see is it's a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.
Why are you asking for facts? You're on the internet here buddy, that's not going to score you any points.
The endless reposts of memes about it feel like bot behavior, more than anything else
It's pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.
I'm not surprised. It feeds into the idea so many people like to think that everyone who disagrees with them is just a bot. But hate to be the bearer of bad news here: Trump is the President. Bots don't vote. Somebody was out there voting for that asshole, and I'm sure plenty of them own a computer.
100%
We're seeing a mass placebo effect in real time.
Have you seen the state of everything? I'll take some placebo right now.
That must be why they're all targeting the Gears E Day servers. You know, because the game where you chainsaw people in half is woke now. Imagine if grindr went down. They'd be out of all friends.
Is this actually true? If so that’s seriously scary.
It's pretty simple, everyone I argue with online is actually a Russian LLM.
2/3s??? Wow, I was expecting a big number but not a sizeable majority
Made up number without an ounce of truth posted.
Now they are the silent majority lol gottem
It seems that outside r/asktrumpsupporters, most of the subreddits that tanked were either location-based or extremely general. the post also has a link to the code tho which I didn't run (I'm on mobile).
Image looks like a bunch of RMC cadets from Canada, a different type of brain-dead boot-licker.
From some of these comments, it looks like 2/3 of this community has lost its sense of humor.
(This is also a joke. Bring on the downvotes!)
Nyet comrade, we have exactly as much humor as our dear leader has ordered us to have.
they will what me? tneoo shill ndig meh? i hate mixing alphabets
I had wondered why /c/mop@quokk.au is suddenly dead.
MAGA's trending new drink for Christmas?
Borscht broth & Vodka.
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