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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by koper@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 11 points 1 year ago

I don't think other people can see it though. On Reddit bot accounts would rack up karma so that when they switch to posting spam it looks like they have a lot of karma and are someone who posts worthwhile things.

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

I’m using wefwef and can see what everyone score is on any given comment as well as their overall score when I go to their profile

[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was wrong. I use Jerboa mostly.

[-] riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

same on Memmy for me

[-] reallynotnick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I can click on you and see the same stats for you... though the numbers seems too low when I eyeball it compared to your comments, but I'm thinking maybe it's just total points for a single lemmy server?

[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 3 points 1 year ago

I guess I was wrong. I shouldn't have assumed. I'm using Jerboa.

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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