• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    How do I know you’re not a bot sent here by Steve Huffman to sow discord and create chaos on Lemmy because he’s a small petty man?

    Hmm? 🧐

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    Sure. But votes aren’t private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it’s easy to spot.

    It’s only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

    • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com
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      1 month ago

      Votes on this comment:

      1. Came from 14 different instances - many of them major. Of those instances, the instance with the most votes contributed was lemmy.world (i.e. your own instance), from which my instance has seen 14 votes for that comment.
      2. Of the voters, I looked at the distribution of the person IDs assigned on my instance, which approximately represents the order they were seen by my instance (e.g. they voted on or interacted with another comment). If there was vote manipulation, I’d expect to see lots of IDs close together. However, there are not runs of IDs that are close together. To avoid this when manipulating votes, they’d need to have planned in advance, and made accounts and used them individually over time before finally deploying them to downvote you.

      If there are instances that are a significant source of vote manipulation, and the local admins are unwilling to address it, there are options available to instance admins like defederation.

      However - in the case of your comments, there is no meaningful evidence of vote manipulation.

  • CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee
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    That’s one reason I love that there is no “karma” score on Lemmee. There’s less incentive to recycle old memes, shill for upvotes, etc. But yeah for propaganda purposes, it can totally be done, probably is being done right now.

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    Instance admins can easily see who downvoted or upvoted what tho.

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      On reddit, it was obvious that people would read the headline then check out the top comment to find out what their opinion of the headline should be.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    I hate to break this to you, but there’s only 43 people on lemmy at all. We’re all just pretending to be everyone, including you.

    You aren’t you at all, you’re a constructed personality inside someone’s mind with a lifetime of false memories and a thin veneer of “free will” to give you the illusion of being a real person.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    Most lemmy servers now have application processes and check for IPs being the same to prevent attacks afaik. When I helped delete spam posts the large majority was from fringe lemmy servers, none from the big ones.

    You can still open up one accound on every server but it takes so much time that it makes no sense imo.