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Blue magas are actually the dumbest people. Also what happened to the no politics for this community? Guess that does not apply if the mods want politics pushed.
fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.
none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex’s search engine web crawler traffic.
it’s remarkable how many people continue to believe it.
Oh wow, one dude couldn’t confirm it.
Can you? Can anyone? So far there was no verifiable proof this had any effect. Which makes sense, because the bots would just move to another data center.
Just because you would like it to be true, doesn’t mean it is.
Facebook mom tier propaganda meme, swap Zelenskyy for a minion and it’s perfect. Ain’t no way people actually believe this crap.
This may or may not be true. Everything is choked up with too much crap to really tell.
You can always trust Americans to blame foreigners for their own actions
When it has been proven that other countries like Russia meddle with the US elections. It is only natural to thank the one disrupting this meddling.
This time it was quite effective. Can’t wait for for the next election Ukraine will save by bombing Russian data centers. Finally we get our vote back into our hands.
So, as I said, Americans can always be trusted to blame foreigners for their own decisions
And he’s not even wearing a suit and tie! Based.
They pour billions to maipulate your opinion and vote that doesn’t matter in the least bit.
SLOP image.
Who’s ‘Zelinsky’?
Probably a spelling mistake from an English native speaker. Because of how the transliteration Zelenskiy (or Zelensky) is sometimes read.
I mean there are many ways to transliterate Cyrillic to Latin letters (depending, among other things, on which Latin-script language you are writing in); but the man’s name is Зеленський, where you will notice that the second and fourth letter is exactly the same, so transliterating one of them “e” and the other “i” is indeed nonsensical.
Because English doesn’t have any letters that are pronounced in different ways depending on the context. Neither does Cyrillic. That’s a unique thing to the French.
Huh? Not sure what parts, of any, of this strange statement are meant to be ironic; but of course English has letters that are pronounced in different ways depending on context, for example “c” sometimes makes a k sound, sometimes s sound.
For transliteration sure… but both of the letters in question are pronounced differently… The first е is unstressed but the second е is stressed. This would make the first sound more like an i, especially for Russians, which would make more sense if they had written Zilensky based on how it sounds when spoken
Either way, call it a little typo
By any chance, are you versed in Ukrainian-Russian differences? I was wondering if anyone could chime in as to whether Ukrainian has the misfeature of unstressed vowels turning into other ones, like ‘eh’-‘ee’, ‘oh’-‘ah’ and such. Of course, Eastern Ukrainians tend to speak Russian anyway, but I don’t quite think it affects the language itself that much.
I don’t know if I’d call it a misfeature, English does it a lot
It’s been forever since I learned any Ukrainian but Ukrainian is a lot more “strict” with their vowel sounds than Russian
о stays an о, unlike Russian where it can become an “ah”
As far as I am aware with Ukrainian it’s just е raised towards и (and back again depending on where stress is placed), hence the original comment. Trips up everyone learning Ukrainian
о stays an о, unlike Russian where it can become an “ah”
Thanks, that’s what I was curious about.
English does it a lot
I mean, in English ‘dog’, ‘dag’ and ‘doc’ are all completely different words.
photograph -> photography
democrat -> democracy
The o vowel collapses
“to” “and” “for” collapse unless stressed
It’s the core reason why spelling words in English is so hard
You can’t hear whether it’s separate or seperate, much like Ukrainian with е and и
photograph -> photography democrat -> democracy
Guess I’m too foreign to understand what’s supposed to be different about these.
seperate
Please don’t.
Father, apple, ago
That’s different, it’s one letter having different sounds in different words. The words I wrote could be homonyms in Russian.
To my knowledge, the surname is also not ever pronounced in a way where the second ‘e’ would make a sound denoted by ‘i’. Rather, it’s the unstressed first ‘e’ that can mutate into the ‘ee’ sound.
Now THATS Americas president.
Nah, Trump is literally the distillation of the American spirit. Possibly the most American American to ever live. Truly disgusting! Truly America’s president!
Me staring at the white Y at the end like
For engagement, and it worked
YES Botero?
Naaah. He got some of them for sure, but there’s still a fuck ton of those douchebags right here on lemmy. If only admins had the balls to do something about it.
Well, main developer of Lemmy once posted something like this:
Who doesn’t support Russia - doesn’t understand geopolitics.
So yeah, I switched to PieFed once figured out that its devs don’t want me dead from a russian missile for the crime of existing.
switched to PieFed
Switched from commies that never had a chance of achieving anything politically, to the dev who had a user blocklist baked into the source code.
That was a different dev. You’re thinking of the one who made his Lemmy frontend block users.
Piefeds moderation features are open to modify.
No, I’m talking about Piefed. It also had a user blocklist.
Except it does not though. Making a feature opt-in is literally the most friendly and permissive action that can be taken in such matters.
Btw Lemmy v1.0 gives Lemmy.ml sole veto power in suggesting community names to new instance installations. But it too is not so much hard-coded as opt-out.
Both platforms are rather opinionated, but the amount of disinformation targeted against PieFed is significantly higher.
Except it does not though.
It was taken out by other devs after people made a stink about it. Which is a regular occurrence with Piefed, people having to fix what the main dev does. His entire development process is like someone’s who’s still in school.
disinformation targeted against PieFed
If only its source code were open and visible to everyone, so anyone could check if this ‘disinformation’ is true.
As far as I heard, all of the “hard-coded” accusations were disproven. Wrapping a statement inside an IF() block that is not executed unless the instance admin specifically requests it is not the same as hard-coding.
Nor is Lemmy.ml’s holding of the veto power for community suggestions quite hard-coded, although tbh its being opt-out is a bit closer to such than opt-in.
Feel free to send a link to educate me. Every link I’ve previously read ended up being disproven. In return, please feel free to actually examine the sourcecode yourself - Rimu has previously sent links to the exact lines involved to make the process quicker.
PieFed is opinionated software though, in other ways, that much is fair. As too is Lemmy, which offers numerous rights to admins and a bit less to mods but far, far less to mere users - like no modmail or other ability to ask a mod what happened; and while an instance admin can defederate from an instance, individual users have no ability to do so (e.g. users from that instance can still send you DMs, and troll you in communities not on their home instance). Fortunately both are FLOSS and we can look at the entirety of their respective sourcecode packages whenever we like, even make a fork if we would rather, as PyLova has done.
like no modmail or other ability to ask a mod what happened
As it happens, I actually can figure out which one of the mods blocked you, for like ten bucks in bitcoin.
Admins can’t do anything… the main perpetrators are ml and grad. The admins are literally on Russia’s side.
Funny…but, unfortunately inaccurate.
OP is a prolific Russian shill. This is a shitpost.
Hol up. Why would Russians work so hard to make Russians look weak?
Russians would probably also not fuck up his name like that
I believe the bigger picture is to instill doubt into the framework of democracy itself. If it’s so easy to sway an election based on this
2016 wasn’t that long ago
You know the democrats, not the scary foreigners, were the ones who boosted trump in 2015/16, right?
Hilary Clinton’s pied piper strategy?
I have them tagged as “Pedo Enthusiast”
That’s… Quite a tag.
And also because even if it were true, this happened far too close to the election to move the needle significantly.
And how much it’s the economy that did it instead
You misunderestimate how fickle and dumb southern strategy voters are.
To be fair yandex servers are pretty huge, so it might not have been bots, but a bunch of other infrastructure that could have been used for election interference. Big if, I know, and not as direct as bots, but survivorship bias tells nothing happening might be indicative too.
Why are Yandex’s servers large? Murica must make Goog and Apple get bigger servers! 40U or some shit.
