You must be new here, don't pay too much mind to it, the Tankies, supporters of eastern bloc autocratic regimes, are a lot fewer in number than they appear but they have a coordinated and well funded operation on the Fediverse including bots and alt accounts.

Whenever you see a fast inconsistent number of votes, always assume it is manipulated.

The entirety of the Lemmy platform is maintained by Tankies such as Dessalines, which run the ML instance and closely coordinate with Lemmygrad and Hexbear to spread pro-Russian and pro-Chinese propaganda. That is why I use Piefed.