2026-10-14 20:47 UTC
If the Russian Bot Farm thing you’re talking about is Ukraine bombing a data center and seeing 90% fewer right wing posts, I regret to inform you that it wasn’t accurate.
The bots they were talking about were search crawler bots from Yandex. Actual Twitter/X bots saw no change in traffic.
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-10-14 22:51
Admitted speculation: I did, however, notice of my own accord that I had 4 days with zero scam calls instead of my usual 10-15, which in retrospect looking back corresponds with when a bunch of Russian services went down. I suspect that the automated crawlers and VOIP systems and aggregators perform a background hum of utility for scam and troll services that makes them much less effective in their absence.