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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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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 54 points 4 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@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)

uh there's plenty of Russian influence here already.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

uh there’s plenty of Russian influence here already.

Entire instances were built around it.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

which ones?

Lemmygrad comes to mind.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

no. they hide among the others.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

probably both really.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

We made it guys!

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 days ago

Probably in the codebase too.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

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

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

[–] breen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really wish Russia would just stop existing.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They really do have to fucking ruin everything