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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like this is what happened when you’d see posts with hundreds / thousands of upvotes but had only 20-ish comments.

Nah it's the same here in Lemmy. It's because the algorithm only accounts for votes and not for user engagement.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah votes are the worst metric to measure anything because of bot voters.