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Russia is not using its own datacenters for fedi when they have unpaid western interns to do it for free.
They're here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they're here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there's a good chance that's a russian troll. They have a scent.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
They've taken over the Late Stage Capitalism community and have started banning comments that say voting against the GOP is a good thing.
Now do Israeli data centers.
Noo that's antiseptic! Are you from hummus???
.ML users left in shambles.
You know, if they could still access lemmy in general.
Real. I joined it cuz it said it was FOSS focused and run by the creators of Lemmy which I thought was neat. Did not realize it was a tankie cesspool. I’m now banned from a good portion of it for “Nazi apologia” because I said calling Ukraine Nazis was Russian propaganda
Just jump instances. I might have my reservations about how the aversion to monetization means a lot instances are unstable or slow with no real incentives or even funding to improve it but there's certainly something to be said for decentralization.
I'm glad the instance I chose based on URL ended up being pretty good because sh.itjust.works.
It’s just Ukraine, no “the” in front.
The BothSidesBad comments have dropped by 70%, even in the thread about how much of a cunt Gavin Newsom is.
Oh yeah?! Well, both sides of Gavin Newsom is a cunt.
This sounds like a good time to hop over to .ml and see who the useful idiots are
A bombing I can get behind. Also go URKRAIN!
Abligitory: release the y redacted Epstein files and hang all the traitors and pedos.
Is there a news story that prompted this or are we huffin copium
the strikes? yes
https://tech-insider.org/ukraine-strikes-yandex-third-data-center-4-days-2026/
the 41%? not sure
If Ukraine is smart they'll flatten as many Russian data centers as possible before the US midterm elections :D
but no one believed that it was russian bots all along back when they were wrecking havoc over every other election across Europe and US...
is it true, though?
Depends on what you call bots. Yandex is a Russian search service, so it needs to constantly crawl the web, just like Google or god forbid - DuckDuckGo. This traffic is 43% down, and not what Lemmy calls bots.
I actually use Yandex for torrents lol.
Edit: Yandex also has the best photo search of any search engine.
.ML traffic:

Alright, this is getting unfunny now
most likely resulting in slower internet services or complete disruption for the average Russian. Unfortunately, the ordinary Russian wouldn’t be able to use high-speed satellite internet as a backup, as Starlink does not work in Russia,
What the fuck is he talking about. Yandex is not an ISP, it doesnt provide any internet access services to anyone. Its first and foremost a search engine, like google (the crawlers are most likely responsible for most of outgoing traffic, tagged as bot or otherwise), with crapload of affiliated services, like google, including their own payment system, like google, which is causing a lot of pain rn to those who chose to keep all of their savings in it, and their own cloud service, like google, which took down quite a lot of other sites with it, along with disruptions to TV's (yandex OS is running on nearly half of them, like android) as well as, unlike google, taxi and food delivery services that they have near-monopoly on, so those effectively halted in the entire country. But, again, unlike google, they dont offer FTTH, residential or commerical internet access, or anything even remotely like that. What in the fuck's sake satellite internet and starlink has to do with it, idk, thats just plain absolute worst journalism, just writing words without even a pinch of research.
And no, despite of how funny it would've been, there isnt actually any report of reduced troll activity ofher than some weird chart some german politician pulled out of their ass without referencing any source. You can even go to xitter, type "яндекс" into search and find loads of actual Russians mass ratioing those few that chose to defend yandex, as well as their reps themselves trying to calm everyone down. If anything, Russian activity on foreign resources only increased because domestic resources are down.
Now Palantir next please.
Very visible on 4chan. Anything that would have been pro-Putin is instead just a blacked/NTR thread from India.
Suddenly the online opinion on the US midterms will shift. Curious
Nobody tell lemmy.ml
Haha, won't get us all. BEEP-BOP MOTHERFUCKERS!
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