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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.
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.
How about we start blocking Yandex ASN?
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.
You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.
It's almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.
Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.
There seems to be a big difference on Twitter tho: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-see-social-media-engagement-drop-after-strikes-on-russia-data-centres-410517/
Account of Reform's Richard Tice, which has 400k followers and who normally has 100k+views on their posts and thousands of likes and comments now struggles to reach above 35k views and even 100 comments and retweets.
Nigel Farage himself with his 2.3m followers has also lost a lot of "engagement", with his content normally reaching hundreds of thousands of views, and now he's struggling to hit 100k and gets only a fraction of the normal amount of comments and likes.
Edit: I hypothesize that reddit bots are less hosted on Yandex and more on other (western) infrastructure, while Twitter bots seem to come mainly from Yandex.
There could be multiple reasons for this.
I also heard that on Threads there is now a strange silence around anything "culture wars"-related btw, while Facebook doesn't seem to be fazed at all. So the Yandex infrastructure seems to have been the staging area for specific platforms, while others are being manipulated from other sites.
I have yet to see credible evidence that any kind of social media activity went down in the last 2-3 days. To me this seems like journalists and politicians capitalising on what people want to hear.
The Twitter numbers seem pretty solid for me - most engagement numbers are achieved in the first 24 hours of posting content on twitter (there are outliers, but it's a valid assumption). The next weeks will tell how much this perceived drop is really from Yandex going down.
Lmao for some reason I am not able to login to my lemmy.world account anymore. This is hilarious.
Lemmy.world was just down. Nvm
Well, duh. Even humans aren't allowed to post on Reddit anymore, sure do wonder how a bot would get in...
what's up with your data from 14-18 of august?
Because it's a quick search and not a dedicated query, I guess the historical data collection is stopping at 56 days instead of going all the way to 60. Same thing happens when I look at any other sub.
I'll be the idiot who admits to being an idiot. What does this graph mean? Is that just raw mentions of "r/conservative" across the internet as grouped by day? Is it meaningful to see spikes alternating with dips? If what the meme is saying were true, what would this graph look like and why? I'm far from an expert in this and I'm curious.
I don't really see how mentions of the subreddit is meaningful of how many bots there were. There are so many posts about r/conservative being down from other subreddits that I can't see the correlation
Same, which is why I'm assuming that I'm misinterpreting what I'm looking at. My interpretation doesn't make any sense, but for somebody who's never looked at whatever that is, that's what it looks like it's saying? It's probably obvious to people who look at that shit every day, but I'm not sure if the "mentions" are correlating to what's in the search bar looking thing or what. Or maybe "mentions" is jargon with a different meaning? Idk.
It's not mentions of r/conservative, it's mentions (posts and comments) in the subreddit.
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.
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).
Where's the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.
At best what I see is it's a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.
The endless reposts of memes about it feel like bot behavior, more than anything else
Yeah there for awhile there were 2 variants of the exact same meme template about this that were the top 1 and 2 posts in my "All" tab. Was kinda weird.
It's pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.
I'm not surprised. It feeds into the idea so many people like to think that everyone who disagrees with them is just a bot. But hate to be the bearer of bad news here: Trump is the President. Bots don't vote. Somebody was out there voting for that asshole, and I'm sure plenty of them own a computer.
100%
Why are you asking for facts? You're on the internet here buddy, that's not going to score you any points.
I was told there'd be no fact checking
And ice cream.
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.