• barsoap@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      For values of “public info” that involve running an instance and inspecting the database. Also lemmy.ml itself has quite a high proportion of tankies as it’s the instance that tankies tend to use to interact with instances defederating lemmygrad.ml.

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          1 year ago

          This only further proves the point that up/down votes are useless here. I can have an account on each federated instance (just one, so not to possibly run afoul any local server rules) and have a script to just run through all of them to downvote something. Could easily be a hundred votes at my singular whim.

          If the names of the accounts are not particularly linked… you wouldn’t really be able to tell that there was much vote manipulation either.