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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
www.theverge.com/tech/1009443/yandex-russian-bots-cloudflare
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
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?
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.
(Dead link) https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.ml shows no change.
This domain is for sale
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Okay that’s strange um I guess you can use others:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/instance-monitoring-sites
fediDB still works
Codeberg.orginstance monitoring sites:milky_way: A quick look into Fediverse networks - OK thanks um I guess
edit: pixelfed.social - for photo sharing only - is the 2nd largest in most metrics.
Sorry https://fedidb.com/servers/lemmy.ml is the url for monitoring lemmy.ml the statistics do look like there’s a tiny slump but nothing significant to warrant accusing Yandex bot usage.