r/CriticalThinkingIndia • u/PrimedGold • 1d ago

Science, Tech & Medicine Following Ukraine’s attack on Yandex’s data centers, Russian bot activity across American platforms appears to have declined significantly. A Swedish engineer rans tests by posting pro-H-1B visa content and observed no anti-Indian hate in response.

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u/PrimedGold 1d ago

Yandex operates a public cloud platform that rents computing power, storage, managed databases, analytics tools to individuals and businesses, just like Google does with Google Cloud.

They also operate a bunch of other infrastructure and services businesses in Russia, which was why Ukraine is targeting them. Also, Yandex is just one provider, but they are estimated to hold around 11% share of Russian cloud market.

People in tech and independent researchers are basically looking across X and reddit. It’s not just India, but American and European subreddits are seeing far less activity that they generally do.

This one was compelling. They tracked r/news and other subs across three days of attacks on Yandex.

https://x.com/p_kallioniemi/status/2109645773042221302?s=46

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u/DioTheSuperiorWaifu 1d ago

The linked post in the tweet seems to be removed.

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u/PrimedGold 1d ago

It works for me.

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u/DioTheSuperiorWaifu 1d ago

The reddit post that they mention, which is supposed to have the full analysis and methodology.