The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.
Edit: It is now open for both of them, or was already. I checked the Fediseer page for both instances and it still says that their registrations are closed.
Though it is suspicious that no captcha, email confirmation or manual approval is required for both of these instances. The admin of lemmy.doesnotexist.club seems to be inactive since their account creation yet this instance is still running. If the admin is the attacker, it could also be that they are the one behind the recent nicole spam.
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/chinese.lol
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.doesnotexist.club
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
bot-list
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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)
Being able to disable downvoting is one of the best features Lemmy has and I wish more instances would do it.
Voting here doesn't influence your feed and downvoting largely serves to spread negativity. Turning it off has a negligible impact on usability and an undeniable advantage when people decide their feelings matter more than someone else's, like whatever this is.
We've de-federated from both the instances being used for manipulative voting.
It does when you use sorting algorithms that depend on it.
Not with downvotes disabled π
I disagree. Downvoting is essential for Lemmy. I often disagree with something and it's right to have a democratic vote on topics.
Also helps identify trolls and bad actors at a glance if you don't already have them tagged as such.
Oh, don't play the victim. Everyone knows who you really are.
Monk, you got busted in /Politics. Give it up. We all know itβs you.
You shouldn't downvote just because you disagree. You should vote based on whether it's productive content.
That's fine, but removing downvoting doesn't prevent the discussion. It curbs drive-by negativity which is a good thing IMO.
Obviously everyone is free to disagree with things. It should be more than absentmindedly hitting a down arrow though. Others obviously feel differently. Thankfully both exist on Lemmy.
How is downvoting essential? It doesnβt do shit.
I want to see it per-community. We use voting for actually decision making in my instance, so we can't disable it instance-wide.
That would be a useful feature. Maybe something to roll out alongside private communities and things coming in the future.
I fully disagree, in your scenario people wouldn't realize how fucktastically bad your idea is
Look at what removing downvotes did to youtube, you seriously want that here?