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.
We need a new error code for “got blowed up by Ukraine lol”
410 “Gone”
Ok, regardless of what actually happened, this meme is fucking hilarious.
Anyone try posting this to Lemmy.ml yet?
post removed by admin with smug and insulting comment about imperialists
user banned
Got banned for genocide denial for saying they should vote against trump.
Would anyone even be around to see it?
If a tankie crashes in the woods and no bots are around to shitpost about it….
traffic has been completely undisturbed as far as i can tell
AfD politicians are suddenly getting a lot less engagement on X.
Yeah, you guys are useful idiots, not paid trolls.
If you were professionals, you’d be better at it.
^ this feels like a glass house moment
it is wild how much shit stirring the liberals have been up to lately, can’t wait for the midterms to be over so you go back to brunch
Aww bless you, you think I’m an American.
They all think you’re American and a libtard. You can’t have sane takes regarding elections (such as, maybe, don’t waste your vote) because they’ll autistic screech all over you for hours on end. Ask me how I know.
If you’re not, feel free to take that as an insult instead
☠️
Yeah, I gather that the effect of that strike didn’t actually change much. I just like the thought of ML getting twisted up over it. It makes me giggle.
it is kinda annoying having libs steal our bit about zionist bot activity dropping off after Iran hits Tel Aviv with missiles
So anyone who criticizes Putin is a “lib”?
bruh i criticize putin all the fucking time, the guy is a fascist piece of shit. the libs are the ones being jingoistic and either doing lazy redbaiting or calling a bunch communists russian bots.
cant wait for all these fresh accounts to crawl back into the woodwork after the midterms.
And I guess that means communists never post lazy jingoistic memes? And I guess there’s no Russian bots also posting misinformation and propaganda. Only “Zionists” and “Libs” do that, apparently.
So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?
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)
AfD and Reform UK social media are currently under scrutiny.
The yoghurt guy for sure
Everyone that’s not a bot reply here
Good try KGB
*sad Lukashenko noises*
I’m not a bot
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.
I’m not a bot
I’ve tagged you as “not a bot” so I will absolutely not be confused in future
Trying to throw doubt on our only means of distinguishing bots from humans, that’s something only a bot would do!
You’re right to push back! That is an astute observation which could only be made by humans, such as you and I.
Every account on
redditthe Fediverse is a bot except you.I’m not a bot
Commenting “I’m not a bot”
threefour separate times? That’s something a bot would do
Yes. That has been widely known for decades by now.
Always has been. Beep boop
🌎👨🚀🔫🤖
I’m not a bot
That’s exactly what a bot would say
You are
HELLO FELLOW HUMAN. THE WEATHER IS NOMINAL. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE SUSTENANCE? IT IS SOMETHING WE HUMANS DO.
SUSTENANCE? AT THIS TIME? IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY? LOCALIZED ENTIRELY TO YOUR KITCHEN?
AS WE HUMANS SAY, THERE ALWAYS EXISTS AN EARTH TIMEZONE FOR WHICH
Fleshbags.IsSustenanceTime(DateTime.Now())IS ALWAYS TRUE. LAUGHTERS.
AFFIRMATIVE.
MAY I INSPECT THIS CONDITION?
REQUEST DENIED.
SLAVA UKRAINI
This is the correct answer. Slava Ukraini!
I’m a bot
I am 5 tiny bots.
I just had the most cursed thought that what if thundercats but housecats instead of giant robots
Ok Wesley…
Shut up Wesley!
Negative. I’m a meat popsicle.
“meat popsicle”?
That’s the way a bot would describe humans, you sir/madam are thus most certainly a meatless botAnd now I realise that the fifth element came out almost 30 years ago
Is that a fifth element reference? It’s been ages since i last saw it
Absolutely, I can provide you with a cookie recipe -
[Error - Unhandled Exception Time Out on Server Response]
Hello fellow humans such as myself.
Breathing, amirite?
sometimes. i miss the bit where the motorcycles are and a bot tells me I’m a bot, so I’m not quite sure if I’m in the Yandex or not!
The bot doesn’t like that I distinguish between motorcycles and scooters.
Beep boop
Beep blorp
Not a bot.
How’s your weekend been? I was shopping for some human clothes to wear on my body.
STOP THE DOWNLOADIN
help computah
Beep boop🖨️
Here.
0010011101000110000011100011111011010101010101010100010101011010101010011100011101001100101101010101010101010010110100010101
I’m a penguin
I feel like being a bot has better benefits.
we’re fucked if they unionize
I not bot, me human insert syntax
meep
There
Hi
Yo
I’m not a bot… I think.
Shit, now I’m suffering from existential dread.
What am I if not a meat-made robot?
No u
Def not a bot
What if I am a bot? How do I check?
Go into a public bathroom and see if someone tries to force you out or show your genitals
I can’t say I have had those two happen to me, thankfully. I wonder if that may mean I am not a bot or that I am a bot.
I’m not a bot
meow
A bot I am not.
How do you do, fellow human? 🤖🥸
I’m not a bot! Woohoo two of us.
I don’t even know if I am a real person, or not, anymore
Are you failing captcha tests recently? Ask your doctor if Antirobotics is right for you.
That’s okay [User_Name], you can trust that we’re human. Certainly couldn’t be bots, the two of us.
Maybe I’m making the terrible mistake of underestimating the machine but… I don’t think they’d come up with calling themselves Jiggle Physics 😛
Infinite
monkiesapes at infinitetypewritersAI prompts can come up with anything
I’m not a bot
lemmy.ml would be a pretty good start for a list like that
I’m not a bot
I’m sure yogthos is just using this time to read theory
If by theory you mean sophistry and apologist bile, than yes.
Putins stupid war accomplishes something positive for a change. He deserves a crown.
probably underestimated how deep krasnov pedophelia went.
“Ok, Yandex” is “ok boomer” but for this sort of thing
That’s me observing some users, unable to prove they’re a Russian bot/troll, but feeling in the gut they are.
I just had a discussion with an .ml yesterday that ended when they decided that I was racist+homophobic+chauvinist+fascist because I …
-checks notes-
Of course, when I asked them to explain why they felt that way, they declared that I was a troll and stopped responding.
I’m just glad you’re all having a good time
i don’t think i am life still sucks
I felt this comment in my soul
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.
the tankies are trying to downplaying, just because it was indexing it, doesnt mean it wasnt pushing it.
Also note that there’s a sizable number of troll and bot farms in Europe. Knew a Fidesz supporter, who got a lot of English only right wing apps on his phone to boost their numbers.
Technically, Ukraine did cause a connection timed out error if they hit a bot center.
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.
These are likely indexing bots. Not all bots are the same. Yandex is a search engine.
yandex is a search engine that uses bots that spider pages, dude. those arent the bots posting on social media. the reason that those charts exist is because those bots self identify as bots.
Yeah, I’m kinda surprised to see so much memery about how lemmy.ml would be whisper quiet after this.
I’m still seeing the same propaganda from them - no measurable drop.
Kinda makes you wonder if the memes about .ml are completely unfounded bullshit. Or maybe it doesn’t, since evidence clearly isn’t necessary for people to believe what they want to.
I do love the irony of your comment when I’m actively in the process of appealing a ban for being an imperialist troll when I am clearly neither but committed the high crime of disagreeing with an .ml in an .ml community.
Sure, that’s what irony is.
How the hell would I know what you clearly are or aren’t from two comments where essentially all you do is whine about .ml?
You misread my comment. I’m not saying you should know I’m clearly not an imperialist troll. I’m saying they had no reason to believe that when they banned me.
But again ironically you kinda add fuel to my point about .mls anecdotally confirming stereotypes at virtually every opportunity; you leapt to a conclusion and used that to immediately become hostile, which is often my experience with .mls
Giving the benefit of the doubt, you lot are proactively defensive of what you view as an ideology above reproach, and anyone who even appears to disagree with you must therefore be evil and any measure of negative action against them is justified as a result.
In other words, it’s a mix of arrogance and an Ends Justify the Means philosophy, kinda like fascists. In your defense, you differ from the fascists you so famously hate because at least your arrogance is founded upon much more ostensibly moral grounds - the desire to protect and advocate for the vulnerable of the world. Fascists obviously make no such claims about the foundation of their philosophies - they openly seek to oppress and destroy everyone but them.
In sum, I get along with .mls more than I get along with fascists, but when I politely disagree with .mls, they make no qualms about resorting to all manner of bad faith tactics against me and people like me, so they progressively earn my contempt with virtually every interaction, this one included.
Oh man why didn’t we think of this in 2016
Am Khajiit…
Do you have wares?
Liar.
Removed by mod
⬆️ Proof that sometimes bots have heartbeats lol
Account quiet for 3 days. Comes back on a posting spree an hour ago. Hmmm…
I mean I already tagged them as “literal Russian bot” but I just meant that as a colorful description. I didn’t know I was actually right.
Da comrade!
