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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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

Someone could just run a rogue instance host all their bots on there, hiding it from anyone else.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Right, but that’s where defederation comes in. Good faith admins can detect their own users and selectively ban them, while bad-faith admins running a server full of brigaders can be defederated if, for example, they detect anomalous patterns coming from that instance.

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