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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 2 years ago by koper@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] figaro@lemdro.id 11 points 2 years ago

This man is over 100 years old

[-] hollunder@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

The only real early adopter

[-] garam@lemmy.my.id 5 points 2 years ago

Even older than the project itself. Nice.. The alfa... The first, the only one

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

I've set the registration date on my account back 100 years just to show how easy it is to manipulate Lemmy when you run your own server.

That's exactly what a vampire that was here 100 years ago would say.

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

Happy centennial cake day

[-] plo@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

If it becomes too big of a problem, instances will whitelist the most popular instances instead of trying to blacklist all the bad ones.

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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