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Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Again, this is why one account per person is the most important part of this system functioning. Bots, brigading, alts, etc. all undermine the way the system should work. In fact, they undermine an upvotes-only system too, since one person with 5,000 bot accounts can make anything look popular.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Which is not possible because you can't guarantee one account per person, anyone can make as many alts as they want, specifically on other servers that can then inundate a post on a target one. That's why it's so problematic.

    In retrospect, federation itself is a terrible idea the way it's been implemented. I don't think the developers took the fact that humans are inherently evil into account.

    In fact, they undermine an upvotes-only system too, since one person with 5,000 bot accounts can make anything look popular.

    This also is true. 🤔 Allowing people to vote on other people's comments in general is so deeply problematic.

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