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

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60715570

cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

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
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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] 9 points 4 days ago

Honestly, still worth it lol