cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/37426651

Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    5 hours ago

    If so, it was coincidence. Forgive the copy/paste as I wrote about this elsewhere:

    They did not attack the “shitposting datacenters”. The Russian troll/misinformation farms use western VPNs and pirated residential accounts to blend in. If they used Yandex Cloud, it would be easy for websites to filter them and deny them access.

    What stopped is the “bots” that index pages, like how Google indexes pages. The Yandex bots that index pages have gone offline because those are the bots that were running in the Yandex cloud / datacenters.

    • DougPiranha42@lemmy.world
      111·
      4 hours ago

      I don’t know anything about this and I have no idea if OP is based on something real or is purely fantasy, but isn’t it possible that yandex infra is still critical in controlling those spam bots hosted on various western servers and residential zombies?

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      4 hours ago

      Why do you assume these websites would want to stop these trolls who increase traffic and engagement metrics. This isnt the first time internet related problems in Russia have resulted in marked decreases on conservative statements on reddit, fb, and twitter. Probably other sites including lemmy as well.