All Quiet On The Eastern Front
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[–] 94 points 3 weeks ago (80 children)

So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I don't even know if I am a real person, or not, anymore

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  • [–] 36 points 3 weeks ago (66 children)

    Everyone that's not a bot reply here

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    I'm not a bot
    Wait noone else has responded, does this mean i am the only real person on the internet?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Replying "I'm not a bot" instantly certainly makes you look like a bot.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Every account on reddit the Fediverse is a bot except you.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    HELLO FELLOW HUMAN. THE WEATHER IS NOMINAL. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE SUSTENANCE? IT IS SOMETHING WE HUMANS DO.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    SUSTENANCE? AT THIS TIME? IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY? LOCALIZED ENTIRELY TO YOUR KITCHEN?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Negative. I'm a meat popsicle.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What if I am a bot? How do I check?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    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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