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Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
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I bet those guys on the left are pissed off. They all agreed they were all going to wear the little black hat but then fucking Chad turned up with his big white hat like a dick.
2/3s??? Wow, I was expecting a big number but not a sizeable majority
the yandex datacenter strikes from ukraine, caused bot traffic from russia on some social media platforms to drop to zero or close to it. most if it was stoking division in conservative communities.
Made up number without an ounce of truth posted.
Now they are the silent majority lol gottem
Rekt 😎
I’d love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.
I wanna see the lemmy.ml numbers
Based on what I have seen and the people I have engaged with on ML I think most of them on here are just completely brainwashed by Chinese and Russian propaganda. But I’m sure there are bots or Russian trolls as well.
IRA?
Ireland Republican Army, those mfers won’t quit until everyone celebrate St Patrick’s Day.
Or this is a typo.
Not a typo, just a shared acronym.
Fun fact: in the UK, you can’t say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they’re “terrorists”, but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.
The UK might be the only country worse than the US
Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm
Weird their acronym is in english. I have no doubt it exists, but the layer of propagandization it passed through that we’re using an acronym made up by english speakers feels distasteful.
I had a middle school teacher who would be intentionally deceptive, using terms nobody used to make things sound scary and painting half pictures about cigarettes, drugs, sex, whatever. Even though the overall viewpoint “smoking bad” was correct, the constant obvious bending of the truth did not help her cause.
A shockingly large amount of countries use English abbreviations officially
When you include second and third languages, it’s the most spoken language in the world. It’s not that surprising.
Their actual name is written in Cyrillic, which you can’t type with a standard QWERTY keyboard. So yeah, English speakers just use the acronym for the translated IRA instead.
Also most English speakers can’t read Cyrillic, even myself. I can read Runes and sound out the Hellenic alphabet but once ya get to shit like Cyrillic and Georgian I’m lost.
Most subtle .ml propagandist.
Okay? I just didn’t feel like typing the full name out.
Presumably the actual name is something in Russian and “internet research agency” was invented by a journalist to sound scarier than whatever the Russians call it.
Агентство интернет-исследований sounds (looks) scarier IMO.
its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.
Yes, any evidence would be better than these fake numbers.
There’s a conspicuous number of comments on this post eager to affirm correlation is not causation.
At first I thought the meme was referring to all the people I severed ties with, because to them, torture, genocide and college rape are controversial and require nuance.
torture and genocide are controversial, but this is about Russian datacenters getting bombed.
That must be why they’re all targeting the Gears E Day servers. You know, because the game where you chainsaw people in half is woke now. Imagine if grindr went down. They’d be out of all friends.
Having pride flags in a game is woke I’m not sure why the level of violence in game would change that. Whether or not that’s a bad thing is another discussion.
And anyone who even gives a single fuck about that isn’t worth listening to. Nor is their opinion on anything worth any weight. They can go back to COD if it bothers them that much. Calling everyone else snowflakes while they do it lmao
Is this actually true? If so that’s seriously scary.
Russotroll factories have been public knowledge for years. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43621355-putinin-trollit was released in 2019.
Translated version e.g. here https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Trolls-Frontlines-Russias-Information/dp/1632461293
In the US they are just called content creators and tiktokers.
It’s pretty simple, everyone I argue with online is actually a Russian LLM.
That is a strawman of course, what is not a strawman is that a lot of the online discourse just mirrors Russian propaganda lines, especially once you go to AfD or FPÖ forums. It is almost 1to1 the RT narrative. Maybe just by accident and not related to evidence of Russia sponsoring and running right populist anti EU media platforms in Europe.
No, it’s a made up number. Lib disinfo.
I don’t like the Russian, I also don’t like disinfo and therefore I have to agree with you. Jokes are fine but some of the stuff that is being posted is written as if it were true. Russian disnformation is real but it does not necessarily rely on domestic Yandex server. I have not seen any evidence yet for impact on foreign psyops operations. The only credible information I have seen was on the reduction in Yandex search bots, which is the obvious reaction to the loss of server capacity.
From some of these comments, it looks like 2/3 of this community has lost its sense of humor.
(This is also a joke. Bring on the downvotes!)
I scared of words I press down button
Nyet comrade, we have exactly as much humor as our dear leader has ordered us to have.
they will what me? tneoo shill ndig meh? i hate mixing alphabets
The Putin/monkey hybrid looks a lot like King Charles.
And allegedly the same thing happened when Russia’s Internet backbones were severed at the beginning of the war… allegedly
Fascinating if true. I wanna see the carnage from hitting others
*3/2
I had wondered why /c/[email protected] is suddenly dead.
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).
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.
Stand at attention. Salute. Top Kek.
MAGA’s trending new drink for Christmas?
Borscht broth & Vodka.
That’s what shchi said.
Image looks like a bunch of RMC cadets from Canada, a different type of brain-dead boot-licker.
Between them and Queens poli sci kids, Kingston is full of winners
The Hip were about the only good thing to come out of that town.
Gonna have to disagree with you there bud. Many good bands have come from there.
I stand corrected. Pretty solid list.
