- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
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).
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
I skimmed this article, but I don’t see one mention of r/conservative, or frankly, any subreddit in general. I’ll give it a closer read in an hour if I can (at the gym, got an assignment to do later) but I’m not confident this addresses the specific claim the post is making.
The news article is specifically about bot traffic from yandex being down. The graph doesn’t really have an explicit correlation with the subreddit though, until someone brings up stats on the subreddit itself (which if I remember Reddit removed access to). So you can only really infer based on actually going to the subreddit. Could be correlated, could be not.