So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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Wait noone else has responded, does this mean i am the only real person on the internet?
Replying "I'm not a bot" instantly certainly makes you look like a bot.
Trying to throw doubt on our only means of distinguishing bots from humans, that's something only a bot would do!
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I don't even know if I am a real person, or not, anymore
That's okay [User_Name], you can trust that we're human. Certainly couldn't be bots, the two of us.
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So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?
😂 good one!
to answer seriously though: i suspect that if anyone did try to make such a list they probably quietly stopped after they realized that the only actual published evidence of "bot traffic" being reduced was talking about HTTP traffic from yandex's web crawler. (they run a search engine, icymi.)
afaict the narrative this (admittedly well-executed) meme is based on is a fake/misrepresented news story. but, correct me if i'm actually wrong: does anyone have any credible evidence of a reduction of English-language social media posts (on the fediverse or anywhere else) which correlates with the strikes on yandex datacenters? 🤔
edit: see also this other comment where i look more closely at the tomshardware/cloudlfare graphs and also the british fascists with suspiciously few retweets claims from https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-see-social-media-engagement-drop-after-strikes-on-russia-data-centres-410517/ (tldr: still no evidence of any correlated reduction in social media activity)
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Anyone try posting this to Lemmy.ml yet?
Would anyone even be around to see it?
If a tankie crashes in the woods and no bots are around to shitpost about it….
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Ok, regardless of what actually happened, this meme is fucking hilarious.
That’s me observing some users, unable to prove they’re a Russian bot/troll, but feeling in the gut they are.
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Putins stupid war accomplishes something positive for a change. He deserves a crown.
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Technically, Ukraine did cause a connection timed out error if they hit a bot center.
I guess it's evidence you're living your life well when you don't notice anything has changed. The places I hang out apparently aren't infested with bots.
“Ok, Yandex” is “ok boomer” but for this sort of thing
We need a new error code for "got blowed up by Ukraine lol"
410 "Gone"
Oh good, the Reddit delusion that Russian bots would all be centrally located in a single, easily blockable/destroyable location and not originate from a botnet of compromised systems across the globe has found its way here, to lemmy.
Personally, the only difference i've noticed is a bunch of smug, evidence-free posts about how all the bots are gone now.
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I'm just glad you're all having a good time
There's a joke I'm missing here. Yeah?
Ukraine blew up like 3 data centres in Russia. And the bots pushing hatred and bullshit suddenly disappeared.
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Oh man why didn't we think of this in 2016
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