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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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