Now do Israeli data centers.
This sounds like a good time to hop over to .ml and see who the useful idiots are
Sorry, what is .ml?
Marxist Leninist instance. Some users just appear to be paid chinese propagandists.
Notoriously tankie lemmy instance.
-23% aggressive .ml tankies detected.
.ML users left in shambles.
You know, if they could still access lemmy in general.
Real. I joined it cuz it said it was FOSS focused and run by the creators of Lemmy which I thought was neat. Did not realize it was a tankie cesspool. I’m now banned from a good portion of it for “Nazi apologia” because I said calling the Ukraine Nazis was Russian propaganda
Just jump instances. I might have my reservations about how the aversion to monetization means a lot instances are unstable or slow with no real incentives or even funding to improve it but there’s certainly something to be said for decentralization.
I’m glad the instance I chose based on URL ended up being pretty good because sh.itjust.works.
Some people reckon we’re a Nazi instance… shrug emoji.
I’m not sure why - but have read it a few times. If someone in the know could clue me in if there is actually some back lore to the claim I’d appreciate that.
You are the first seemingly sane person from .ml I’ve seen
When I first joined Lemmy 3.5 years ago I almost joined .ml because it was the dev’s instance. I’m glad I chose .ee instead.
I have a confession:
When I joined, I thought ML was for Machine Learning.
I initially thought .ml was literally the TLD for the nation of Mali - so was super confused.
Who? Traffic seems fine to me.
You may be new enough not to have encountered this yet but our instance has a well earned reputation of being Soviet boot lickers. Be careful on .ml meme subs and stuff, you’ll catch a permaban for saying anything pro Ukraine or in any way interpretable as anti Russia
If .ml traffic drops, it’s because a Russian data center was hit. If .ml traffic increases, it’s because an election is coming up. When .ml users post on our own comms, it’s because we’re in an echo chamber and can’t handle other perspectives. When we post on other instances, it’s because we’re brigading.
Anticommunism is a non-falsifiable orthodoxy that is capable of transforming any data point into hostile evidence.
.ML traffic:
Remember to donate to Ukraine so they can do it again!
Every coin helps!
Someone check Lemmy.ml traffic
rare opportunity to refine blocklists
Russia is not using its own datacenters for fedi when they have unpaid western interns to do it for free.
They’re here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they’re here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there’s a good chance that’s a russian troll. They have a scent.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
Who’s this guy? Sounds like a fun read
There’s another obnoxious troll that’s similar to yours that is so bad at it, I’m pretty sure he’s an american.
like persimmons or bad bo?
Smug cloud
can you give an example?
These are old and some of them on just their techniques, but it’s a good start.
- Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8 (old-reddit link)
- Link within previous thread and archived- “Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
- Russia and the Menace of Unreality-How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
- Russia is using the power of ‘Black PR’ to destroy political reputations and spread disinformation in the West
- The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias
- What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain-Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
- Political Misinformation Game: Harmony Square-it’s an actual game
- Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast
- Amygdala hijack occurs when strong emotions “take over” the thinking part of your brain.
- Asch conformity experiments
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
- It’s My Right to Hold This Turd
- 5 studies about fact-checking you may have missed last month
- This Video Will Make You Angry
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983
Hope that helps!
Can confirm- they stopped sending me checks a while ago
The real way to end wealth inequality: send cheques to everyone who thinks america deserves the slightest criticism.
It wasn’t those kind of bots, more like the Google web crawlers.
Very visible on 4chan. Anything that would have been pro-Putin is instead just a blacked/NTR thread from India.
There has been a lot less posts about socialism that’s for sure.
?
What does Russia have to do with socialism?
Very common to pretend that communism and socialism is the same thing.
I’ve always felt like Russian bot farms and propaganda Mills like to push discourse about socialism in the United States.
It’s not that they’re necessarily in support or against socialism they just like to have people arguing about it for whatever reason.
Centrists love to pretend that everyone to their left is Russian.
Negative.
Read the thread.
It’s all variants on “durr hurr hurr .ml is a ghost town!”
I don’t care what .ml is doing.
I’m not a centrist.
I was inferring that Russian bot farms and propaganda Mills like to sew discourse about socialism in America they don’t necessarily agree or disagree with socialism they simply like to make people fight over it.
You made an assumption that was incorrect which is generally what assumptions are.
Ukraine… you want to win this thing?
I just wish the Indian bot traffic would die as well
Traffic where?
Cloudflare services, there was a post about how their data showed a large drop in bot traffic after a Yandex datacenter was hit.
