21st Night of Steptembermansalia@maid.zone
Oct 13, 2026, 6:38 PM@nuintari @evacide
It's much more than a shitty search engine. They are essentially a digital extension of our government, one of the two. A huge part of our websites went down due to being hosted and/or operated on yandex infra. They monopolized taxi and food delivery in many cities, are one of the two major digital map providers, are building another worthless messaging app, host the only useful cloud storage in russia, operate a sovereign youtube surrogate (yt is banned here), and a crappy clone of every other google cloud suite product.
Their services are used by basically every organization (since most of western alternatives are banned or illegal).
People like me, that are not reliant on their services, lost nothing. In fact, this will make more people aware that their shit is NOT safe when it's all managed by a single tech corp.
It's much more than a shitty search engine. They are essentially a digital extension of our government, one of the two. A huge part of our websites went down due to being hosted and/or operated on yandex infra. They monopolized taxi and food delivery in many cities, are one of the two major digital map providers, are building another worthless messaging app, host the only useful cloud storage in russia, operate a sovereign youtube surrogate (yt is banned here), and a crappy clone of every other google cloud suite product.
Their services are used by basically every organization (since most of western alternatives are banned or illegal).
People like me, that are not reliant on their services, lost nothing. In fact, this will make more people aware that their shit is NOT safe when it's all managed by a single tech corp.
