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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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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Over a houndred dollars for 700 upvotes O_o

I wouldn't exactly call that cheap ๐Ÿค‘

On the other hand, ten or twenty quick downvotes on an early answer could swing things I guess ...

[โ€“] popemichael@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

For the companies who want a huge advantage over others, $100 is nothing in an advertising budget.

I have a small business and I do $1000 a week in advertising.

[โ€“] Zana@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't know anything about advertising but what are you doing that costs $1000 a week? I am legitimately curious.

[โ€“] popemichael@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I run a digital currency investment group.

I can make 10-15k per day, so it's not a lot in the grand scheme of things

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