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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated

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

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