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(How) Does Lemmy prevent brigading and other vote manipulation? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaptainBlagbird@feddit.de to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Unidan could just create an account on multiple instances and vote for his posts/comments with all these accounts. That way his content would gain more attention than those of sincere users.

In case of malicious bots (like those annoying bootleg bots on reddit), it might even be profitable for them to create their own instance(s) just for that purpose.

Is there a mechanism to prevent that? (other than user/instance banning and the introduction question on user creation)

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[–] genfood@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I guess this kind of instances will be banned. If it becomes obvious.

There are already a bunch of spam-bot-instances, the admins have to spot them and block them actively.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

There isn't and Lemmygrad.ml users have been doing it in the past. Mostly down-vote brigading though and this is the main reason why down-votes are disabled on our instance.

Personally I think there should be a setting to prevent down-votes from federating as there is really no point in federating them to instances with other rules and different community culture.