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why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?

One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person’s posting habits were disrupted.

The other guy was disputing the objectively unlikely connection between the two posters and Russia. In your mind you somehow converted that into claiming that the poster defended Russia as such. You’ve stopped looking at the actual evidence and are just going off the vibes, Russia is already bad therefore every bad thing ascribed to it has to be true.

When the weakness of the connection was pointed out to the reddit OP, even he kind of stepped back. Maybe go accuse him of going soft on Russia as well? Or take a step back yourself.

For now what I’m usually seeing is people talking about Russian influence without hard proof or just plainly contradicted by reality, as in this case. I’ve seen speculation that Dessalines (Lemmy developer) is Russian due to his tankie takes, again easily contradicted by his digital footprint.

As for me being a tankie, I’m literally banned on Hexbear for being subscribed to some anti-tankie communities.

One comment:

Allow me to weigh in here as a Russian.

Moscow lost power due to Ukrainian drone attacks

I am sorry, /u/Ok-Stand-2128, but this premise from the post looks wrong. Could you please share your sources on this? I could find no info about an outage in the city of Moscow on that night. There was only an outage in Moscow region: more specifically, in Zhukovsky, a city with a population of about 100,000 people. (An analogy would be an outage in Albany in the state of New York, while New York City had no outage.) I’ll share my sources in a reply because Reddit sometimes deletes links to Russian websites.

I can imagine no reason for this outage to influence any Russian bots. Zhukovsky is not an IT hub.

Also, the fifth image shows that the two users in question usually start posting at 2 a.m. Moscow time, the middle of the night, not a typical workday start.

The increasing tendency of US leftists to assume Russian influence behind the conservatives seems like a rehash/mirror of the Cold War anti-communist paranoia. The profiles themselves clearly behave bot-like:

It’s definitely Ask4MD, but I figured the other one was According-Activity87. If you go on conserv sub right now half the first page is both of them posting. Both have extremely easy MOs to follow. Ask4MD will post something and never engage with it. According-Activity will post something then post a GIF response almost instantly. It’s so tuned and they’re never called out about it.

GIF responses are indeed a frequent thing for reddit bots to use, from what I’ve seen.

So… the impact will be gligible?

It can be noted that the original comm on blahaj.zone gets drastically less traffic than before, and I don’t think anyone uses the .world comm at all. Most activity is at /c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I love that comparison.

Strong Ivan Bilibin vibes (but apparently it’s by an another Russian artist, Ernest Lissner).

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres’ expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

So… what was the post about?

I looked at “Individual-Quail”, who just replied “No?” to the request to generate a hello world script, and it does look like a human, tbh.

People can be just lazy and skim the posts they’re replying to, ignore or fail to understand the edited bold text…

I miss some of the bots.

Remember-Me or Haiku-Bot

have been my favourite ones.

(I’m a shitty haiku bot)

but it’s not a place you go for open and honest discussions between people from both sides of the aisle

Where do you go for such discussions anyway?

clbottomt when the chtopt shows up [imagine this as that popular GIF meme]

Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn’t know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I’ve always found stupid. So I don’t think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.

OTOH, if they’re low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??

Even though they could just make their own Lemmy communities, or ask to be appointed as mods of existing ones…

Wasn’t that just recently?

Man I miss the times when Google used to trick us into helping make knowledge more easily accessible to everyone. Now we just train fucking AI for luxury cars.

Something of the sort has already been claimed for language/linguistics, i.e. that LLMs can be used to understand human language production. One linguist wrote a pretty good reply to such claims, which can be summed up as “this is like inventing an airplane and using it to figure out how birds fly”. I mean, who knows, maybe that even could work, but it should be admitted that the approach appears extremely roundabout and very well might be utterly fruitless.

Same. I learned about the ‘releases’ section only recently thanks to some kind Lemmy user (kinder than some I’ve seen on Lemmy and reddit discussing this same image, some people are openly supporting gatekeeping of software).