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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
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The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.

Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I'm sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just make new usernames whenever I thought of one I thought was funny. I've only used this one on Lemmy (so far) but eventually I'll probably make a new one when I have one of those "Oh shit, that'd be a good username" moments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can change your display name on Lemmy to whatever you want whenever you want.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 1 points 1 year ago

Oh neat! Thanks!