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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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] 10 points 2 years ago

Assuming a users upvote history or karma ever meant anything, this demonstrates perfectly it's useless on Lemmy.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Two solutions that I see:

  1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
  2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Reddit had/has the same problem. It's just that federation makes it way more obvious on the threadiverse.

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