Still no harm in damaging russias economy a couple more times this way. Keep em coming 🤖🚁💣

Yeah, Russia should probably do something about that.

Yeah maybe Russia should stop their invasion of Ukraine so the war can end.

Similarly: the only reason there's a war in Iran is because the United States sent its Navy there.

Imperialist invaders fucking off and going home challenge (impossible)

In the past, when I saw the same posts on both Reddit and Lemmy, the Lemmy comments always showed more critical thinking and skepticism where it was appropriate. Nothing was taken at face value; memes were not considered a source of information, and there were always many comments looking for verifiable sources. This was in stark contrast to Reddit.

But, apparently, something changed. When the memes about the bombings started coming in, every comment was based on the premise that the meme was true. "2/3s??? Wow, I was expecting a big number but not a sizeable majority" "reddit too, all the traffic has been quiet."

Fortunately, as time went on, the more critical comments got voted to the top, and this spurred more skepticism. But the damage had already been done. The first wave of comments is always more representative of peoples' uninfluenced reactions; seeing them made me lose my faith in Lemmy.

Anecdotally, I have seen much less pro-Republican sentiment on the Facebook feed for my local newspaper. Usually anything related to Paxton or Trump is heavily “yay MAGA! go USA!” and name calling against liberals. Since the attack, I’ve barely seen any of that narrative and it’s people calling them out for their actions.

Could that mean that the entire user base had a change of heart and flipped? Sure, but unlikely.

ukraine has been willing to do a ceasefire for ages and putin keeps escalating.

Spot on. It feels like people are more tribal on Lemmy. Just look at the downvotes on the comment you replied. Straight facts but downvoted cuz .ml

Disappointing to say the least. But maybe this is natural due to the way instances work. Kind of separates us into teams by default.

I don't care what instance you're from. Use your brain. Don't believe anything without actual evidence. This is war. Always be skeptical.

Entirely agreed, maybe russia should gtfo of Ukraine so the war can stop.

Anecdotally you should understand what sample noise and confirmation bias are.

The bots that went silent were search indexers

Citation needed

Well what are you waiting for? Demonstrate it!

So we should stop russias war of aggression, right? Right.jpg?

I’m trying to figure out why there is a small vocal minority so hell bent on saying “it’s not those bots!”. What purpose does it serve? It’s like the kid who’s hand is stuck in the cookie jar trying to deflect to something else.

So tell me, why are you pushing things so hard?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

Because disinformation is bad even if you agree with it..

Hey quick question, let's assume everything you think about Russia is true. Why is putin playing along? Why is he emptying soviet vehicle stockpiles and losing troops on droves to a place he said in 2014 he could take in 2 weeks? If the US or NATO actually wanted to invade Russia, now is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be even better. So why continue a war that only weakens Russia?

I guess the ultimate question is what is putin trying to accomplish with the invasion?

I think I've made two comments to that effect so I don't really understand the premise of your question.

I try to correct untruths and didn't think there was any special reason needed to do so.

Why does it strike you as something needing justification? Even from a perspective of someone not necessarily agreeing on the facts, I don't understand why this would come across as anything other than someone commenting about their perspective, which is... the whole point of discussion-based social media like Lemmy.

People are real passionate about it.

Based on this comment section, we absolutely need to study the issue further.

The automated request traffic (potential bots) simply moved elsewhere, the initial impact was still felt at the Cloudflare level.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/

Says who?

https://www.slideserve.com/lucky/american-imperialism

I bet you can't say Russia is imperialist scum.

I double bet you will start about America instead.

Sure, 9 day old .ml account.

Lol. Sure, bud.

Nice photoshop, 2 day old .ml account.

A wall of text to a simple question. Classic.

What metrics can you provide that Russia is getting weaker and not steonger? With the advent of BRICS this will only continue at a greater pace. Countries like Russia and China are ascendant.

I mentioned depleted stockpiles specifically, but go ahead and pretend I was talking about economics.

Russia is fighting an existential threat on their border. That's what they're trying to accomplish.

So they take all of Ukraine. Russia now has a border with a nato country, the thing they're allegedly going to war to prevent. Fucking brilliant.

Sure, 2 day old .ml account.

The amount of bots flooding this comment section says enough at how bad the datacenter attack was for the russian regime.

So many day old .ml accounts spewing propaganda.