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Apparently engagement on that other site's r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.

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[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 135 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'd love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 69 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wanna see the lemmy.ml numbers

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Based on what I have seen and the people I have engaged with on ML I think most of them on here are just completely brainwashed by Chinese and Russian propaganda. But I'm sure there are bots or Russian trolls as well.

Wouldn’t want to get a brain disease, washing often is healthy

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] thomas@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ireland Republican Army, those mfers won't quit until everyone celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Or this is a typo.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Fun fact: in the UK, you can't legally say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they're "terrorists", but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.

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[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago

Not a typo, just a shared acronym.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 36 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 4 days ago

its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.

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[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 92 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Where's the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.

At best what I see is it's a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why are you asking for facts? You're on the internet here buddy, that's not going to score you any points.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was told there'd be no fact checking

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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We're seeing a mass placebo effect in real time.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Have you seen the state of everything? I'll take some placebo right now.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'll sell you some placebo for three moneys

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Three whole money? In this economy?

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The endless reposts of memes about it feel like bot behavior, more than anything else

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.

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[–] polydactyl@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay I don’t feel like searching out articles for your lazy ass but:

Fact 1) Russia has been involved in cyber influencing for years. They largely do this through opinion bots.

Fact 2) Russia was severely limited on internet capabilities with recent strikes.

Fact 3) An absolute butt ton of outspoken conservatives and tankies and shit are all of a sudden “gone”.

Could be a false correlation, but even us laymen can guess R=~0.93

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but I'm not seeing evidence that those bots are gone tho. I saw some graph claiming a dip in Yandex web crawlers. That's it. And even that, the sourcing of it all comes back to one MP for the European Parliament? Like that's the whole source? Are we really believing those douchebags?

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a conspicuous number of comments on this post eager to affirm correlation is not causation.

At first I thought the meme was referring to all the people I severed ties with, because to them, torture, genocide and college rape are controversial and require nuance.

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[–] Saarth@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (7 children)

You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.

It's almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.

Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'll be the idiot who admits to being an idiot. What does this graph mean? Is that just raw mentions of "r/conservative" across the internet as grouped by day? Is it meaningful to see spikes alternating with dips? If what the meme is saying were true, what would this graph look like and why? I'm far from an expert in this and I'm curious.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't really see how mentions of the subreddit is meaningful of how many bots there were. There are so many posts about r/conservative being down from other subreddits that I can't see the correlation

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[–] Saarth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not mentions of r/conservative, it's mentions (posts and comments) in the subreddit.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There seems to be a big difference on Twitter tho: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-see-social-media-engagement-drop-after-strikes-on-russia-data-centres-410517/

Account of Reform's Richard Tice, which has 400k followers and who normally has 100k+views on their posts and thousands of likes and comments now struggles to reach above 35k views and even 100 comments and retweets.

Nigel Farage himself with his 2.3m followers has also lost a lot of "engagement", with his content normally reaching hundreds of thousands of views, and now he's struggling to hit 100k and gets only a fraction of the normal amount of comments and likes.

Edit: I hypothesize that reddit bots are less hosted on Yandex and more on other (western) infrastructure, while Twitter bots seem to come mainly from Yandex.

[–] Saarth@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There could be multiple reasons for this.

  1. The bots are used only for generating engagement and not posting. So engagements went down, posts didn't.
  2. The bots are used on Twitter and not on Reddit so twitter was impacted but reddit wasn't. Kinda likely considering twitter loves bots and reddit has been cracking down on them.
  3. Engagement is not a very transparent metric, and depends on a lot of factors like when content is posted, the quality of the content, seasknality, etc. There can be multiple things affecting engagement.
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[–] Gravel8@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

How about we start blocking Yandex ASN?

[–] orenj@leminal.space 45 points 4 days ago (3 children)

2/3s??? Wow, I was expecting a big number but not a sizeable majority

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Made up number without an ounce of truth posted.

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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now they are the silent majority lol gottem

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[–] Nokkelost@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Is this actually true? If so that’s seriously scary.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's pretty simple, everyone I argue with online is actually a Russian LLM.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

That is a strawman of course, what is not a strawman is that a lot of the online discourse just mirrors Russian propaganda lines, especially once you go to AfD or FPÖ forums. It is almost 1to1 the RT narrative. Maybe just by accident and not related to evidence of Russia sponsoring and running right populist anti EU media platforms in Europe.

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

I bet those guys on the left are pissed off. They all agreed they were all going to wear the little black hat but then fucking Chad turned up with his big white hat like a dick.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That must be why they're all targeting the Gears E Day servers. You know, because the game where you chainsaw people in half is woke now. Imagine if grindr went down. They'd be out of all friends.

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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 16 points 4 days ago

I had wondered why /c/mop@quokk.au is suddenly dead.

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Image looks like a bunch of RMC cadets from Canada, a different type of brain-dead boot-licker.

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[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

this is the source I could find that is closest to your claim (sorry for reddit but legit I could find nothing else)

It seems that outside r/asktrumpsupporters, most of the subreddits that tanked were either location-based or extremely general. the post also has a link to the code tho which I didn't run (I'm on mobile).

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From some of these comments, it looks like 2/3 of this community has lost its sense of humor.

(This is also a joke. Bring on the downvotes!)

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Nyet comrade, we have exactly as much humor as our dear leader has ordered us to have.

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MAGA's trending new drink for Christmas?

Borscht broth & Vodka.

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