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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 days ago

Honestly, at some level, this is not a meme

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 22 points 5 days ago

Slava Ukraina

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.

none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex's search engine web crawler traffic.

it's remarkable how many people continue to believe it.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

A little critical thinking also helps recognize this as a hoax. The Russian government is smart enough to know any such activity shouldn’t originate from Russian IP addresses. They’re likely using a combination of commercial VPN providers, cloud services like AWS, and potentially botnets to post to social media. (Well, probably not AWS, but there are literally hundreds of smaller cloud providers out there to choose from).

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

A lie will make it halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to get out of bed.

But I thought Ukraine were the nazis.

[-] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 31 points 5 days ago

Ukraine? Nazis? That's just Tankie propaganda

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago

Ukraine is full of Nazis, North Korea has free elections, and 99 other lies tankies tell themselves

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago

Like Russia isn't imperial and China isn't capitalist.

It is like they live in a completely different reality. Which is possible, since they are completely digital.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 2 points 5 days ago

Aren't they just basically trolls saying nonsense they don't really believe to manipulate readers?

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

It is possible they pay humans to do it.

Or they just run some automated processes that copy paste texts based on key words.

Probably a bit of both.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 days ago

Ukraine is full of Nazis if we use the Russian/tankie definition of Nazi:

You are a Nazi if you oppose Russia.

I'm not even joking, that's the general sentiment over there. The idea that Russia could possibly be fascist is an oxymoron.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Well, some parts of Ukraine are currently occupied by Nazis - the ones in russian uniforms...

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago

too bad it dint target the bot farms, which are deep inside russia.

[-] Bibi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

This was disputed

this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
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