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2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club (hackertalks.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The instances being used are

lemmy.doesnotexist.club
chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @[email protected]

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

bot-list

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

At this point I would probably just link this post on the Lemmy Defense HQ Matrix chat, most of the admins are there

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

WTF did you just call me?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Eh, poorly delivered joke I was attempting as a way to note that your comment was indecipherable to my simpleton brain.