Even if you think they're part of a psyop I kinda wish the notion that psyops are purely farms of people faking things would die off. Psyops are only effective once the fabricated movement sees organic adoption among the target population. The people you're interacting with are in all likelihood sincere people representing how they see the world- whether you think that their perspective is a distortion of the material facts of the world is another matter.

Doubtful that an instance that is using the Mali extension is actually hosted in Russia.