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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
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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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[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (19 children)

For the companies who want a huge advantage over others, $100 is nothing in an advertising budget.

I have a small business and I do $1000 a week in advertising.

[–] Zana@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I don't know anything about advertising but what are you doing that costs $1000 a week? I am legitimately curious.

[–] sombrero@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You have no idea about business expenses do you. I work in the events industry, corporations hold single evening events for their higher up employees for 10s of thousands in only technical expenses, before the venue asks for rent, or the catering etc. A single month of any basic service on the enterprise level starts from 5 grand.

[–] Zana@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

You're right, as I said, I don't know. That was why I asked.

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