Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?

5 hours ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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]

KairuByte 48 points 4 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?

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A_norny_mousse 8 points 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.

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UiUiUiUiUi 5 points 2 hours ago

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.ml shows no change.

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phutatorius 3 points an hour 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.

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Naich 12 points 2 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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EmilieEasie 7 points 4 hours ago

Certain reddit communities gotta be a ghost town now

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queermunist 1 point 27 minutes ago

No one will learn anything from this.