Fediverse

Edit: It is now open for both of them, or was already. I checked the Fediseer page for both instances and it still says that their registrations are closed.

Fediseer doesn't check constantly btw.

@TomMonkeyMan@chinese.lol @yassinsiouda@lemmy.doesnotexist.club

Being able to disable downvoting is one of the best features Lemmy has and I wish more instances would do it.

Voting here doesn't influence your feed and downvoting largely serves to spread negativity. Turning it off has a negligible impact on usability and an undeniable advantage when people decide their feelings matter more than someone else's, like whatever this is.

We've de-federated from both the instances being used for manipulative voting.

We need public voting or this will only get worse. It's currently way too easy to manipulate everyone's feed.

Warned about this 11 days ago. https://lemmy.world/post/27449126

This is still a weakness of the current federation model imo

I know one of these instances.

Fuck you, Nicole!

The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.

The alternative theory would be that these instances had open registrations, but rightly closed registration down after the admins noticed the bots. chinese.lol is on 0.18.4 with an admin with a 2 year old account, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has an admin with a 1 year account, and it was also that instance that the 'nicole' person has used before. This downvote attack would need to be a long time in the planning for what you're suggesting to be true.

Can your detection method be automated and federated?

I'm asking because this is probably the thin end of the wedge and is likely to increase exponentially, especially since anyone can set up an instance and do whatever they like with it.