Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web.
It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online?
[Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
(Dead link)
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.mlshows no change.???
It made Fedi news https://cake.kobel.fyi/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/225784/fediverse-observer-is-offline-and-no-longer-being-developed
Okay that’s strange um I guess you can use others:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/instance-monitoring-sites
fediDB still works
OK thanks um I guess
edit: pixelfed.social - for photo sharing only - is the 2nd largest in most metrics.
Sorry https://fedidb.com/servers/lemmy.ml is the url for monitoring lemmy.ml the statistics do look like there’s a tiny slump but nothing significant to warrant accusing Yandex bot usage.