Russian influence operations expand to BlueSky : technology

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Oh, good. I was worried we might actually get to keep a platform free of garbage. Whew. Can’t wait for all those conspiracy nuts to join in too!

/s

Seriously, if someone would just off Putin, that’d be great. Let Russia fall into a little civil war as smaller leaders fight amongst themselves for the scraps.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am not on that platform but I'll offer a:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Thank you, AI !"

P.S. If Russians will be in Nurnberg court they will say something like "it's not our fault, it's putin's fault."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Bots. Bots EVERYWHERE

[+] [email protected] -87 points 1 day ago (78 children)

I don't support Ukraine

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[+] [email protected] -51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

bluesky itself is russian psy op

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 days ago

"Russian influence operations" is a pompous way of saying that social media communities are big villages, and village culture gossip and bullshit and ape dynamics work there just as well.

Those "operations" are not significantly more complex than "bank support" calling you and saying you've got to tell them the 2fa code, or you lose all your money.

BTW, if something works well, it shouldn't be more complex. Just those people who designed social media to be vulnerable to such attacks - they should understand that social backdoors are just as universal as technical backdoors.

[+] [email protected] -29 points 2 days ago

Ukrainian source. There is Ukrainian/western warmongering/self diminishing/impoverishing disinformation/narratives, including Ukrainian propaganda reposted verbatim such as this article. All counter narratives are labelled pro-Russian disinformation. Very common on all social media.

I have no idea whether there are some bot accounts on Bluesky, but it would be "not good" if Bluesky's bans are exclusively against anti-warmongering bots, to promote the Ukrainian/NATO bots/content, which on other social media, have deeply funded "SEO scoring" already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The amount of bots on that sh*tty platform is insane. I left it for Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

you know public bluesky blocklist (like this one https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s) is very effective to counter those kind of thing right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'm subscribed to block lists and at least what I see looks pretty bot free.

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