I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.
Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.
The title is misleading at best. I’m sure 30-50% of the content are bots, but the link to Moscow is… let’s say tenuous. There is no good source for a blackout in Moscow, only in a minor city (100k inhabitants) of the Moscow area called Zhukovsky according to one of the comments in the post. Russia is a country with 150 million inhabitants, searching for blackouts anywhere in the country on one event of reduced bot activity isn’t real science, and doesn’t point to any kind of causation.
Further down in the post, if you read it, you can even see OP was using problematic methodology and had to point to another post. You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point. This is conspiracy theory level shit, guys, you can do better than this.
Edit: link to the corrected reddit post by the same user. Look at the fifth graph provided. Amazing that 350 people upvoted this conspiracy shit, you guys have a serious problem over at .world
Edit 2: @BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip do you have anything to reply at all to this? Don’t you think your post is disinformation, or at least the title?
Hmmm…Power must be on in Moscow at the moment.
Hopefully, Ukraine will correct that error soon.
Oh no, I contradicted your baseless conspiracy theory, I definitely must be paid for by all-powerful and simultaneously about to collapse Ruzzia!
Looking at your history you seem to be a bit of a Russia’s defender.
Are you a Russian bot yourself? Do you feel called out? You seem very defensive. Projecting much?
You seriously don’t think there’s anything wrong with 700 people upvoting this dogshit conspiracy theory misinformation? Are you gonna pretend it’s alrighty and dandy because “it’s le evil Ruzzians at work again”?
“RuSsIaNs ArE tHe GoOd GuYs. ItS tHe NaTO fAuLt tHeY hAd To iNvADe Ukraine.”
Literal maga behaviour, I expected better from people who fled reddit
You’re describing 90%1 of all internet discussion.
1 no actual sources available
If you said Russians are the reason you’re always missing one sock in your dryer, half of Reddit would agree.
We already know what YOU are, Yuri.
Hmm. Sounds like something a Russian would say.
I tried improving it by updating the title and description. Even looking at the corrected image we still see disruptions in posting on that day and OP asked a question: 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.
They were the Best Man at their cousin’s wedding in Cleveland? Use your imagination. There are infinite possibilities.
You can be honest and say you have an agenda posting this because of your political opinions, but it is disinformation. Without any link to Russia other than a localized blackout in a minor city in the Moscow region (not part of Moscow, as your post implies, but Moscow Oblast), you could equally make the guess that the posters/bots were on holidays because of Halloween/Día de Muertos and didn’t make posts because of expected low engagement.
The fact that you’re trying to push a link between the two a-priori unrelated events, even if you frame it under “I’m just asking questions”, has a deliberate attempt, and my worry is not exclusively with you as a single individual doing this, but the 500 conspiracy-brained upvotes taking this shit and nothingburger to the frontpage.
to explain my downvote
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others. That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.
Off topic, but I want to say that I appreciate you explaining your downvote. Some of the downvotes on here seem entirely senseless and definitely make one wonder, “Why would anyone downvote that?” When people explain their reasoning, not only are they contributing to Lemmy in a more constructive way, but it helps other commenters gain perspective. Thank you for adding your thoughts.
curious what rhetoric you mean? they just pointed out that this looks like a conspiracy theory with tenuous evidence.
the oop is attributing posting patterns changing on a US subreddit to a power outage in the middle of the night in some random city with 100k people in Russia, when it was also a holiday (Halloween) in the entire US.
i don’t think that it is aggressive to point out that this is a silly correlation that is actually disinformation when framed this way - lots of people are going to just read the title, upvote, and move on with all their predisposed biases feeling confirmed
just lay out the argument, I don’t have patience to read flamewar crap.
Her argument is “ruzzia good, west bad…”.
no, my argument is that this is comically tenuous evidence.
its like saying that there was a power outage in New York City because Poughkeepsie has a power outage. then concluding that it is evidence of a US troll farm because it coincided with a dip in traffic on reddit during a major holiday.
Learn to Yandex better, Olga.
When people make disinformation campaigns, whether it was their intention or not, I will respond accordingly
Until the rubles stop coming, hey Boris?
Russia is simultaneously a shitty gas station about to collapse and just a few sanctions away, and an all-powerful entity dominating US and EU politics. Everyone who contradicts this is paid for by the state.
“When people make campaigns that don’t match my agenda, I will respond accordingly”
FTFY
Are you seriously defending the contents of this post?
Are you seriously defending Russia?
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.
Go suck Putin’s dick.
“Russians control Reddit! I demand you take my assertion in good faith and be nice to me.”
Okay buddy.
Yeah, you’re definitely a stinking Yuri!
Cool, now you go.
My agenda is socialism, as you can see directly on my username. I’m not hiding anything. Blaming the far right autoctonous to Europe and the USA on foreigners is not realistic analysis, and so won’t reach realistic results. “Let’s close Russian disinformation” good, let’s also close western disinformation, which is vastly more prevalent and, you know, LEGAL.