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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It can still be used to artificially pump up an idea. Or used to bury one.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the problem. All the algorithms are based on the upvote count. Bad actors will abuse this.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So maybe more weight should be put on comment count? Much harder to fake those.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's where all the harm comes from

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agree. Farming karma is nothing compared to making a single individual polar-opinion APPEAR as though it is other’s (or most’s) polar-opinion. We know that other’s opinions are not our own, but they do influence our opinions. It’s pretty important that either 1) like numbers mean nothing, in which case hot/active/etc. are meaningless or 2) we work together to ensure trust in like numbers.

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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