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And deleted in a couple days.

Lol you shouldn't pick online fights with people who WFH in IT 😂

Lemmygrad

No, it's just new instances to easily create accounts in (why would those three be new when they're literally older than .world?)

Try harder, bud.

Rookie numbers.

The people who are too stupid or incompetent to fact check basic things.

Those without critical thinking skills

Hmmm prob a combination of:

• My calls for defederation of .ml
• My calls for boycotting of .ml comms
• My cross-posting of content from .ml comms to non-.ml comms to reduce their influence
• My constant collection of evidence of the .ml admins, mods and Tankie users

Generally it's because they have their hatred of .ml as the driving force of half their free time. It's weird and off-putting.

So, you're going to just declare the admins of multiple instances just lying about things then?

https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282 https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282

https://red.computersforpeace.net/
https://jenny.nya.pub/
https://fun.with.kyun.li/

All came online within the day it happened and all are now offline now that they've been widely defederated from and useless. With notable mentions to downvote troll accounts @FourGreenFields@feddit.org and @TheDregg@lemmy.world who were also banned

People saying "yes there's proof" but aren't giving any. Weird...

Here's a recap post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Instances are more like servers or domains. Your instance is lemmy.world. We can see votes from individual users because votes federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0).

In order for that federation to happen, the votes must be public. This prevents a rogue instance from just lying and telling other instances “yeah all my shit is super upvoted” and pushing itself to the top, or inversely pushing others down by spoofing downvotes. It also allows instances to properly block banned users; If I’m banned from a community/instance, my individual votes shouldn’t count towards it. So anyone with the know-how can inspect which individual users have voted on posts, and how they have voted.

Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts on each, just to mass downvote. It’s just blatant vote manipulation, and is why the admin stepped in to defederate (stop sending info back and forth) from the rogue instances.

You see stuff like that occasionally from the “tankie triad” instances, (lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmygrad) but they’re usually more subtle about it to avoid instantly getting defederated.

Little bit more.

Someone made 3 servers, then a bunch of accounts on those servers, then used all of those accounts to downvote.

Allegedly because I ain't got the time to manually verify that myself.

Servers, not users. Though each server would have users.

Although I don't think they're bots like the post is implying. OP just spends a lot of time annoying them.

What do people said, but since you're new, here's a recap post on what the whole Tankie situation is about (if you didn't encounter them on Reddit lol