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 overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
  • belochka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 minutes ago

    And it makes perfect sense that before reading this many people felt that they clearly see Russian bots vanishing.

    Human psychology is just not equipped for open Web. Especially social media kind of it. F2F and personal webpages and circles of friends are fine, but anything crowd-related is worse than sending pigeons.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    50·
    5 hours 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.socialEnglish
      101·
      2 hours 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.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 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.

        • wltr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          10 minutes 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.

    • digdig@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      1 person is now responsible for all posts on r/conservative, he’s also the mod and he can’t keep up, sweating in his Dacha waiting for the GRU to turn up and motivate him.