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Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe (alliance4europe.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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This flash report describes the key behaviours of what is likely the Russian influence operation Doppelgänger’s expansion to Bluesky.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If an online platform has gained any reasonable traction whatsoever, we should expect the Russians to be all up its ass. Can't wait to see the same article for Lemmy here!

[–] acosmichippo 42 points 3 days ago (3 children)

uh there's plenty of Russian influence here already.

[–] woelkchen 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

uh there’s plenty of Russian influence here already.

Entire instances were built around it.

[–] Tangent5280 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

which ones?

[–] woelkchen 4 points 3 days ago

which ones?

Lemmygrad comes to mind.

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

no. they hide among the others.

[–] acosmichippo 6 points 3 days ago

probably both really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We made it guys!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Probably in the codebase too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Indeed but Bluesky has strong and malleable moderation and blocking options at least.

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

Yeah, first we need to a bit more traction I think 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really wish Russia would just stop existing.

[–] ArtVandelay 3 points 2 days ago

They really do have to fucking ruin everything