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- ron_kPreviously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619
- gritzkoThis graph shows that Yandex Web crawler farm was hit. The other option, it was shut down to accommodate more critical services that got hit. (I worked for Yandex 20 years ago, one crawler guy was in the same room.) Not sure if troll farms got affected in any way, that is a different business entirely, no overlap.The interesting aspect is this: Yandex was taken from its owners semi-consensually. Similarly, the original owner of the troll farms was blown up in a business jet. He staged a mutiny cause his dirty bloody business was about to be taken from him non-consensually. Some other large non-consensual takeovers unfold for 5 years, soon 6.What an appetite!
- sznioI don't use X myself, but my friends told me there's a noticable reduction in hateful tweets, at least in the Polish sphere. Much less comments blaming Ukrainians for everything wrong with the world.
- xvxvxFor those claiming a drop in hate speech on social media, I’ve yet to see examples of this. Plenty of claims, no examples.
- SXXI hope at least fellow IT people can recognize that "social media bots" are not running on Yandex datacenters neither they have IP adresses from Russia.This is just not how social media botting works. If you try to "bot" facebook, instagram or any major social network via browser from datacenter IP let alone ones from Russia you'll soon get all your accounts banned.Social media are botted via apps on mobile phones set in large farms; read: thousands of mobile devices. They either jailbroken or have some advance automation.Neither they use Russian IP. Instead they go for residential proxies kindly provided by Israeli firms where bandwidth cost a leg, but it worth it. Or they just use their own botnets instead.
- yokoprimeAn important detail for those, like me, who have't kept up with the news: this was drone strike against a yandex data center, not cyber attack.
- deancThere's a lot of ancedotes "I've seen hatespeech drop" etc. This is measurable and there are people measuring this kind of thing. Let's wait for some real data.
- nomilkThis is a great example of a headline that has two completely different meanings to two different groups.Many are (incorrectly) interpreting 'bot traffic' to mean something like "fake users on social media that leave comments and 'likes' supporting right-wing posts". (something Russian bots were accused of during the 2016 US presidential election)But Yandex is like Russia's Google. Both Google and Yandex need to scrape the internet in order to index (no indexing means the site would not appear in search results).So Yandex datacenters going down meant so too did their 'bots' that visit sites to index them. Nothing to do with 'bots' as per the Russia collusion allegations a la the 2016 election.
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- asdf88990Russia is a pretty shithole in many ways but the posturing of people here in a post Snowden and Epstein world is something.Yes, russia uses both farms and attempts to influence the public opinion, but guess what.
- victorbjorklundThanks Ukraine
- lsofzzAccording to Cloudflare, US still accounts for majority of the bot traffic though. https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots?dateRange=12w#bot-traffic-...Yandex is just a drop in the ocean bud.
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- charcircuitThis is sad to see considering Yandex seems to be the only company with a proper image search right now.
- jdw64Looking at the destruction of Yandex data centers, these days it shows how terrifying drones are as weapons. I'm curious about how to defend against such drones. Are kamikaze drones a method of exploding on a target after image learning?
- makerofthingsI wonder if their SREs have a 'Drone strike' playbook.
- komali2This is being documented across the internet. Pro AfD posting plummeted and pro Trump posting plummeted.It makes me wonder whether activists should have been targeting these operations sooner. I had no idea they were so centralized.