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The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

This is a one two punch, not only does it hurt Russia's interests, it may cost the GOP in the upcoming election. Nice way to respond to Trump buying Russian Diesel.

[–] weps@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right before the midterms in America.

This is gonna be bad for MAGA

[–] crystalmathadept@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is anyone really on the fence anymore?

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh god, so many are on the fence still in Idiot America.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-record-low-hispanic-voters-sour-on-republicans-reutersipsos-poll-2026-10-05/

The poll gave numerous signs that Trump's low popularity was weighing heavily on his Republican Party, with registered voters preferring Democrats over Republicans by 44% to ​37% less than a month before the November 3 election. Among independents, Democrats led 37% to 21%, with 28% ​of independent registered voters still undecided.

[–] crystalmathadept@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

JFC in a handbasket what the ?!? I guess some people don’t really give a shit what happens and just vote so they can say they participated.

Vermin Supreme where are you!

American conservatives would elect to get cancer if it had an (R) next to its name. That is, so long as they can fuel up the massive trucks they use to stand in for their tiny cocks, but Trump fucked up diesel pricing.

I'm guessing 15% are starting to wonder.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

By "Yandex bot" and "Russian bot" what do they mean?

Do we mean "bot", like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a "bot", or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?

[–] esc@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago

Search engine crawlers.

[–] logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic...

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, so that's a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It's not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear "Russian Bot".

It's presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they're way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don't respect the robots.txt file.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Of course the reason of using the term 'bot' rather than crawler or just automated traffic is a specific framing.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

And yet i am still here

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

~~This is in ukraine’s best iterest.~~

~~Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.~~

~~If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.~~

Disregard. It’s Yandex bots, not troll farm bots.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, but the troll farms use Yandex

They don’t use Yandex, but it appears they might share datacenter resources.

I don’t know anything about the linked source or how trustworthy it is.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RIP search engine that still gives good piracy results.

You'll be missed.

[–] Scrollone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

That's true. Google is so censored you can't find anything. And on the other hand, dark web search engines let you find things you'd rather not know about