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PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by koper@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

My point is you can have a mixed system. For example:

  • server stores list of "special interest" users (followed users, WoT, mods, etc)
  • server stores who voted for what (already does)
  • client updates the server's list of "special interest" users with WoT data
  • when retrieving metadata about a post, you'd get:
    • total votes
    • votes from "special interest" users
    • total votes from your instance

That's not a ton of data, and the "special interest" users wouldn't need to be synchronized to any other instance. The client would store the WoT data and update the server as needed (this way the server doesn't need any transitive logic, the client handles it).

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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