Targetting these is genuinely a viable wartime strategy as Russia projects it's influence heavy through propaganda and other digital initiatives in other nations.

Is it though? How can we tell?

Source?

Don't worry, Trump will get the Russians back online soon.

I wonder how traffic on "Truth" Social is going right now.

Coincidence?

I have trouble believing that. This is talking about Twitter as a monolith when it is actually thousands of isolated algorithmic bubbles

Wait, what? Twitter still exist????

These should have been targeted every day for the last 10years, good job Ukraine

reddit too, all the traffic has been quiet.

Yandex is just web crawlers like the ones Google and many other companies have. Perhaps that server housed their bot farm shit too but who knows. The drop in Yandex crawling is proven with data, but the rest of this is just speculation and assumptions based on perception. It’s anecdotal.

Tjis is my favorite version of this meme.

Now if they can just work on the other half

Weird, not noticing a change.

Is that also why lemmy seems so peaceful today?

I love the fact this happened and I also love the fact how Ukraine is using my yearly donations in its fight against the russian regime ❤️

Nobody tell lemmy.ml

seems organic

The bot traffic in question is indexing crawlers. Yandex is a search engine (among other things), there is nothing suggesting they're hosting LLMs to run bot accounts

It has been a tactile absence.

Appreciate you sharing the news. I never go there, so i would have never known. Maybe you could not go there soon yourself OP? No worries if not, its your life afterall.