I noticed this too yesterday when I posted a youtube link on Lemmy. Couldn't get the Cyrilic blurb to go away, so switched to a piped.video link. Probably for the best anyway.
6 0 ReplyTalking it over with Lemmy.World admins, we're thinking it's because the server is in Finland and YouTube is going "Eh, Russia, close enough!"
10 0 ReplyIn all unfairness to these companies, geolocation via IP address is pretty hit or miss sometimes
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It's got to be something in the link unfurling process being detected as Russian localized, right?
5 0 ReplyThis has been worrying me the past day or two also
5 0 ReplyMight have to do with cloudstrike?
3 0 Replywhat is cloudstrike? I think you mean crowdstrike?
2 0 ReplyCloudFlare / CrowdStrike. ;)
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Don't think so, the Cloudstrike IPs for lemmy.world are in Canada, and the server proper is in Finland. 🤷♂️
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It shows it in German for me on lemm.ee
2 0 Replyit is also german for me
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