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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the Lemmy UI doesn't expose the data is available via the API. That's how clients like Memmy are getting it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep! I just saw this other post where I learned I was wrong. That's what I get for just using Lemmy itself. https://lemmy.world/post/1250922?scrollToComments=true