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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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[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Are you an academic or just dense?

[–] SafetyGoggles@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@NightAuthor@beehaw.org

Are you an academic or just dense?

I thought beehaw is all about inclusivity and safe space and friendly shit

[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who says I’m not being inclusive. If I want to provide a helpful answer to the question, I must know what perspective they’re asking from.

[–] navigatron@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Let’s go academic with it, and skip straight past “impossible to answer” directly to heuristic / attribute analysis.

What are the attributes / behaviors / tells of a fake account?