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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year 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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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 141 points 1 year ago

The lack of karma helps some. There's no point in trying to rack up the most points for your account(s), which is a good thing. Why waste time on the lamest internet game when you can engage in conversation with folks on lemmy instead.

[-] reallynotnick@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'm misunderstanding karma, but Memmy appears to show the total upvotes I've gotten for comments and posts, isn't that basically karma?

[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 12 points 1 year ago

I don't think other people can see it though. On Reddit bot accounts would rack up karma so that when they switch to posting spam it looks like they have a lot of karma and are someone who posts worthwhile things.

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

I’m using wefwef and can see what everyone score is on any given comment as well as their overall score when I go to their profile

[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was wrong. I use Jerboa mostly.

[-] riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

same on Memmy for me

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