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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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's not exactly public, IIRC? Like, admins/mods have access, so it's not private by any means, but I wouldn't really call it public.

[–] lena 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

Due to the way federation works, it is public. Anyone could spin up an instance and make a tool to make votes public.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's what I meant by admins/mods, thus I still think my point is still valid: not private, but not exactly public.

[–] lena 2 points 5 days ago

I think it would be better to make it clear that people's votes can be seen by anyone with a little technical skill, better than hiding that fact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Anyone can set up a server, make themselves an admin, and federate with other servers. That's what makes it decentralized.