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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] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Why do you assume the admin is behind it? If you have an instance that has open registrations and no captcha, then bots will take advantage of that. It doesn't mean the admin is the one doing the attacks.

In fact, such instances are more common than they should be since open registrations with no captcha is the default configuration, last I checked 😑