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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.

Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I'm sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit admins manipulated vote counts all the time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit also created fake users to post fake content... At least in the beginning of reddit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL "beginning of Reddit" comprises the time up to and including July 2023.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It marks both the beginning and end

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Alpha and Omega if you may.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aaaand...?