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(How) Does Lemmy prevent brigading and other vote manipulation? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Unidan could just create an account on multiple instances and vote for his posts/comments with all these accounts. That way his content would gain more attention than those of sincere users.

In case of malicious bots (like those annoying bootleg bots on reddit), it might even be profitable for them to create their own instance(s) just for that purpose.

Is there a mechanism to prevent that? (other than user/instance banning and the introduction question on user creation)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.

As for multiple accounts - couldn't the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.

These issues are as old as the internet and can only be mitigated, not prevented.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a cat and mouse game sadly...

Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.

Couldn't they keep the instance running and just change the domain name? Or if not easily possible, then just have a setup script that creates a new instance under the new domain name with X number of users.

As for multiple accounts - couldn't the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.

Sure, but as mentioned it might be easier with Lemmy since they could just run their own instance. Or maybe it's harder because Lemmy admins check account creation better on their own instance and are more sceptical of other instances.

It's an interesting topic, time will tell how it's gonna be. It certainly isn't bad to talk about it already today. ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed - time will tell. I'm sure there will be growing pains, but with that, the moderation tools will improve.

A little wild west never killed nobody... wait...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit has some kind of detection for that and you will get banned for using alts to vote your posts up.