Yandex is just web crawlers like the ones Google and many other companies have. Perhaps that server housed their bot farm shit too but who knows. The drop in Yandex crawling is proven with data, but the rest of this is just speculation and assumptions based on perception. It’s anecdotal.
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The people’s ableism! Wanna tell us to kill ourselves more, comrade?
It’s stupid because it blinds people to the fact that Russians are working class just like we are, and just like Ukrainians are. Lumping them altogether with their shitty leadership and governments is not ideal.
I REGRET TALKING TO RETARDED AMERICANS
and you say that’s because of your national propaganda?
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There are plenty of reasons to dislike Russia aside from the nationalist propaganda, thank you.
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I dislike Russia because they were the bad guys in Rocky IV, meaning I have a better moral standing than whatever nonsense you’re posting on about. Typical of a foreigner to be culturally insensitive like that, but I forgive you. Not everyone grew up with access to VHS.
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I wonder how traffic on “Truth” Social is going right now.
These should have been targeted every day for the last 10years, good job Ukraine
it’s been a slow erosion of air defence over the years, finally now valuable targets in the major cities are routinely vulnerable.
i guess that’s the plan going forward. also a good advert for self-hosting because a lot of data is going to get lost
It may be a good advert but it certainly isn’t helping the cost of hardware. Just increasing demand as other data centers must scale up to accommodate the change in network traffic.
Weird, not noticing a change.
reddit too, all the traffic has been quiet.
I have trouble believing that. This is talking about Twitter as a monolith when it is actually thousands of isolated algorithmic bubbles
will be fascinating to see how long it stays down… and when it comes back up, if ukraine hits again, when it goes down, again
This is about Yandex’s bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.
what makes you assume that? the graph is labelled bot traffic. what am I missing?
This graph is likely from a site proxy (e.g. Cloudflare, but I think the colours are wrong) showing information about incoming requests. Posting bots generally make much less traffic than scrapers (scrapers tend to blindly follow links, while posting bots just make the API requests they want).
So lemmy.ml is gone?
Gone where?
Targetting these is genuinely a viable wartime strategy as Russia projects it’s influence heavy through propaganda and other digital initiatives in other nations.
Yeah, especially this close to elections…
to several countries elections.
Based Ukraine, boss move
Is that also why lemmy seems so peaceful today?
Wonder if it had a measurable effect on .ml traffic…
I’m waiting for someone to say hexbear is down or something. (My instance is defederated from them and grad, so I wouldn’t know).
Lets see if we can bait some of the .ml heavyweights out. I’ll start:
The PRC is a hypercapitalist colonial/imperialist superpower masquerading as communism.
There. Start the timer.
both .ml and hexbear have had zero downtime for october so far
Darn… Maybe the next datacenter will do it.
the server is in france so it would probably be a major incident if big Z attacked that
That says nothing about where the users are located
i’m in the us and have actually met other .ml users in person 😂
the xenophobic paranoia about us will never stop being hilarious tho
Awful curious for someone who self censored, lmao.
Time: Approx. 7 hours…
And where did I self-censor?
Are you timing your diarrhea cramps or something?
You’re choosing to censor yourself from the opinions of leftists.
“the opinions of leftists”
I get plenty of those, as I am one and interact among the rational segment of leftism. What I don’t waste my time on is fake-leftist shill accounts peddling disinformation on behalf of the imperial fascist financial oligarchy that is the Russian Federation.
So nice try trying to monopolize leftism, but it’s not working. Go peddle your caricature elsewhere.
Good luck with that 👍
But China isn’t a superpower
Maybe if your sources are all 10+ years old, that might seem like a justifiable position
nah dude. Laser eyes is a superpower. China is a place.
I was about to say “you’ve never heard ‘superpower’ used in a geopolitical context?” and then I noticed your username and suddenly the silent “/s” came through.
Carry on, good sir!
we know r/conservative, and r/conspiracy traffic went down.
Source?
Source?
Is there also a source for twitter traffic decrease?
This is about Yandex’s bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.
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.
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?
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.
Tjis is my favorite version of this meme.
Nobody tell lemmy.ml
Also mysteriously gone, hellooo .ml are you there…?
Yes? Wtf are you libs talking about, lmao.
Idk lmao…
I bet you don’t know what you’re talking about a lot, hey?
I’m right here, baby girl
half of them are gone…
yall love making shit up
Ah, the less intelligent half that is left has arrived 😜
Watch out .ml aren’t known to have humour! (Or being historically accurate, but that’s another story).
It’s really funny seeing you guys yelling at ghosts.
It’s called laughing, and the ghosts are angry.
Who?
We’re halfway there then.
So you moved from reddit to a leftist created space, find it too leftist, and want to force out the original inhabitants of the space?
Libs gonna colonize, lol
You can always just go back to reddit and never have to worry about talking to another leftist again.
Tell them? They are the ones that just got bombed. They pretty much knew before just about anyone else.
A New Hope…
Ooh my cousin, GoldAxolotl
Now if they can just work on the other half
We have data centers at home.
there should be a weekly holiday where everyone agrees not to look at the local datacenters (wherever they are) for the entire day and if the datacenter is mysteriously gone the day after the holiday it’s considered good luck.
Don’t worry, Trump will get the Russians back online soon.
