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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Votes were just a number on reddit too... There was no magic behind them, and as Spez showed us multiple times: even reddit modified counts to make some posts tell something different.

And remember: reddit used to have a horde of bots just to become popular.

Everything on the internet is or can be fake!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Everyone forgot how he and his wife announced their marriage in a subreddit nobody knew about that suddenly rise up to the first place on r/all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

reddit used to have a horde of bots just to become popular

Since the launch back in 2005.