2026-10-13 00:25 UTC
If so, it was coincidence. Forgive the copy/paste as I wrote about this elsewhere:
They did not attack the “shitposting datacenters”. The Russian troll/misinformation farms use western VPNs and pirated residential accounts to blend in. If they used Yandex Cloud, it would be easy for websites to filter them and deny them access.
What stopped is the “bots” that index pages, like how Google indexes pages. The Yandex bots that index pages have gone offline because those are the bots that were running in the Yandex cloud / datacenters.
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@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-10-13 08:14
I’m sorry, but the disinformation in these topics is so high it’s hard to get facts as a professional. That said, maybe a possibility could also be that what you say is true but the LLM usage from those bots reach back to Yandex as their backend because you’d need to have models somewhere to generate seemingly human responses. In any case, the lessened bot spam is an indication.