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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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your right. You just asked what a "fake account" was though. I think it's generally accepted that if you create "alt" accounts for the sole purpose of vote manipulation, you're being a dick.

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

Why am I being a dick, I was genuinely curious. What do you mean "vote manipulation"? Like making a post with one account and creating another one to upvote the post?

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

I didn't mean YOU are being a dick. If SOMEONE creates “alt” accounts for the sole purpose of vote manipulation, they're being a dick. I was using the royal "you," a weird english language thing. You, yourself, are not a dick. We'll you might be, but I don't think so.

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

Sorry, I misunderstood. I definitely agree accounts created for the sole purpose of upvoting stuff/bot farms are bad. I just don't know if there's an effective way to fight it as they're getting pretty elaborate these days and it's hard to distinguish them from real accounts.

Pretty soon we'll be at the point where no one will trust anything on the Internet.