Two solutions that I see:
- Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
- Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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What is the definition of a "fake account"?
In this context it would be an account with the sole purpose of boosting the visible popularity of a post or comment.
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Wouldn't a detection system be way better? I can see a machine learning model handling this rather well. Correlate the main accounts to their upvoters across all their posts and create a flag if it returns positive. It would be more of a mod tool, really.
I have already ran into a very obvious Russian troll factory account and it really drags down the quality of the place. Freedom of speech shouldn't extend to war criminals and I'd rather leave any clusterfuck that allows it, whether they do it through will or incompetence.
I wonder if an instance could only allow votes by users who are part of instances that require email verification or some other verification method. I would imagine that would heavily help reduce vote manipulation on that particular instance.
This alone wouldn't help because I can just set up an instance that requires email verification (or any other kind) and automate it still since I can make infinite emails with my own domain.
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