Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
  • rangber@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    15 days ago

    Enjoy while it lasts. They will spin up again on new regions. Take out all Yandex data centers, they’ll move to Alibaba cloud.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      all the tankies here and on reddit saying it hasnt affected the bots at all, and there is no change in thier bot traffic.