https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

will be fascinating to see how long it stays down... and when it comes back up, if ukraine hits again, when it goes down, again

So lemmy.ml is gone?

This is about Yandex's bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.

This is about Yandex's bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.

there should be a weekly holiday where everyone agrees not to look at the local datacenters (wherever they are) for the entire day and if the datacenter is mysteriously gone the day after the holiday it's considered good luck.

Is there also a source for twitter traffic decrease?

"X"

Watch out .ml aren't known to have humour! (Or being historically accurate, but that's another story).

.ml salty

I wonder how traffic on "Truth" Social is going right now.

These should have been targeted every day for the last 10years, good job Ukraine

Also mysteriously gone, hellooo .ml are you there...?

Gone where?

Yes? Wtf are you libs talking about, lmao.

You can always just go back to reddit and never have to worry about talking to another leftist again.

i guess that's the plan going forward. also a good advert for self-hosting because a lot of data is going to get lost

Weird, not noticing a change.

Yandex is a search engine. Their bots are just web crawlers.

Yandex is just web crawlers like the ones Google and many other companies have. Perhaps that server housed their bot farm shit too but who knows. The drop in Yandex crawling is proven with data, but the rest of this is just speculation and assumptions based on perception. It’s anecdotal.

EDIT: nvm

truss me bro

It may be a good advert but it certainly isn't helping the cost of hardware. Just increasing demand as other data centers must scale up to accommodate the change in network traffic.

Idk lmao...

Ooh my cousin, GoldAxolotl

https://i.imgflip.com/44ugq0.png

It’s stupid because it blinds people to the fact that Russians are working class just like we are, and just like Ukrainians are. Lumping them altogether with their shitty leadership and governments is not ideal.

I bet you don't know what you're talking about a lot, hey?

So you moved from reddit to a leftist created space, find it too leftist, and want to force out the original inhabitants of the space?

Libs gonna colonize, lol

I'm right here, baby girl

it's been a slow erosion of air defence over the years, finally now valuable targets in the major cities are routinely vulnerable.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Russia aside from the nationalist propaganda, thank you.

and you say that's because of your national propaganda?

cope

Based Ukraine, boss move

I dislike Russia because they were the bad guys in Rocky IV, meaning I have a better moral standing than whatever nonsense you're posting on about. Typical of a foreigner to be culturally insensitive like that, but I forgive you. Not everyone grew up with access to VHS.

what makes you assume that? the graph is labelled bot traffic. what am I missing?

The people's ableism! Wanna tell us to kill ourselves more, comrade?

You don't actually believe that, if you thought any instance had a lot of unlabeled bots, you'd just report them.

This graph is likely from a site proxy (e.g. Cloudflare, but I think the colours are wrong) showing information about incoming requests. Posting bots generally make much less traffic than scrapers (scrapers tend to blindly follow links, while posting bots just make the API requests they want).

Ah, the less intelligent half that is left has arrived 😜

It's called laughing, and the ghosts are angry.

Give Putin a crown for exposing that its nothing but Russian bots

Yeah this is largely disinformation: Yandex bot traffic drop isn’t Russian disinfo collapse | Cybernews

Bot is a very vague word, covering many different things.

Crawlers do not try to hide that they are bots, simply looking at the user agent is enough to tell they are a bot.

Social media bots try to hide that they are bots, both to the social media and to services like cloudflare. Any half-decent social media bot will exit through a domestic IP, not through an hosting provider IP, especially not in Yandex's AS. And their traffic will be categorized as human.

Yandex is basically Russian Google. They do everything Google does I'm pretty sure (except phones. They did try to make phones though), including but not limited to AI, web crawling, the cloud, delivery, smart home, and even payments

You're fucking unhinged, I've never seen anyone else who deletes every single comment they make within hours of making it. Using slurs too, go to therapy.

Found one: https://piefed.nl/post/213693