When Russia invaded the Ukraine, and sanctions were initially placed against them and the internet to Russia was cut… Reddit was its old self for about 2 weeks. There were still some random nut bags wondering around saying crazy and hateful shit, but the level of misinformation and everything else dropped by at least 90%. It was pretty eye-opening.
I remember that. Can’t recall the name, but there was one subreddit that was reduced to literally one person/bot posting when the Russian ones went dark.
When Russia invaded the Ukraine, and sanctions were initially placed against them and the internet to Russia was cut… Reddit was its old self for about 2 weeks. There were still some random nut bags wondering around saying crazy and hateful shit, but the level of misinformation and everything else dropped by at least 90%. It was pretty eye-opening.
I remember that. Can’t recall the name, but there was one subreddit that was reduced to literally one person/bot posting when the Russian ones went dark.
Do you mean when they banned bots and like 95% of the content on most of the top reddits stopped coming in?
Or did this happen twice?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/08/lumen-internet-russia-backbone-cut/