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Where does Lemmy store upvotes, downvotes, and replies? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Tehhund@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does ActivityPub send those to other instances, or does ActivityPub only send the original post and the rest (upvotes, downvotes, replies) are stored only on the original server where the post was made?

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[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Would it change anything besides their technique?

They almost certainly already have vote manipulation tools for reddit that work via browser automation, because someone offered me money to build one 10 years ago.

Those tools and a handful of accounts+vpns would already be borderline undetectable without the access needed to see that 25 accounts always voted the same way.

At least on Lemmy, you have that access. Reddit not only makes zero effort to prevent it, they actively obfuscate the information needed to spot it.