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2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club (hackertalks.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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The instances being used are

lemmy.doesnotexist.club
chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

bot-list

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I checked the web archive. The registrations have been open since 2023. I think it's safe to assume that the admin is indeed the one behind this and possibly also behind the nicole spam. And it has been a year since these bot accounts were created and they are still being created, the admin does nothing, does not interact with anyone, but still hosts the instance.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230809200352/https://lemmy.doesnotexist.club

We desperately need some system to fight against these type of attacks. It is still not much of a problem. Creating bot accounts and then spamming the entire Fediverse isn't hard but defending against it will be in the future.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why do you assume the admin is behind it? If you have an instance that has open registrations and no captcha, then bots will take advantage of that. It doesn't mean the admin is the one doing the attacks.

In fact, such instances are more common than they should be since open registrations with no captcha is the default configuration, last I checked 😑