r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/PrizeSyntax 19h ago

Bots need data centers to run, data centers stopped working, bots stopped working. What's so complicated about that?

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u/potatodrinker 19h ago

Social media engagement metrics were down like 30% suddenly and some of us had to explain, awkwardly, it's the non humans who died during those strikes. Path to recovery is to get more DCs up and flood our platforms with bots once more.

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u/GoodMix392 18h ago

I’d be curious to know how much the social media giants rely on bot traffic to convince investors that they are experiencing user growth each quarter. Like they must know that a significant portion of their traffic is just bots. I feel this is also cheating companies who pay to advertise on these platforms.

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u/pinkycatcher 15h ago

There's a reason Reddit started to let users hide their profiles, to cover up how many bots are active.

Go look at the front page, it's 90% sketchy accounts with generic names and hidden profiles. There's hundreds of small subs that have weird posting metrics too, once you stumble on one you'll start to recognize how fake it all is.

Lots of propaganda going around.