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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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[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That defeats the purpose of decentralization and creates a dangerous precedent. The entire point of Lemmy is that every instance is equally valid and legitimate. If certain instances are elevated above others, we're on our way to do what Gmail and Microsoft did to email.

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm not saying I agree, I definitely think it sets a dangerous precedent

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree it would be a dangerous precedent.

Thing is, though, every instance is not equally valid and legitimate: that's the reason for defederating from Threads.

Not sure what you mean by what Gmail and Microsoft did to email? Do you mean that they assume many unknown email origins are spam? Though Gmail's obviously attracted a lot of users, and I myself have moved off it now to paying for my email provider elsewhere, I was under the impression it's been quite good for email and for pushing secure email, and being good at anti-spam.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean that Microsoft and Gmail took over the email protocol and right now if you stand up your own email server with a new domain/IP you basically have zero chance to get your mail delivered anywhere. They've positioned themselves as "higher" authority because of the sheer number of users they control and can now control the entire email system.

Same thing could happen with instances if we elevate lemme.world or any other instance to be "more legitimate" so their user votes count higher.

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Uh no. Just implement DKIM if your messages are not being sent correctly. Spam is killing email, making admins implement more protocols such as DKIM but that isn't "google and Microsoft killing email"