Meta (lemm.ee)

not lemmy.ml? shocked

That user is pretty annoying tho, I'm pretty sure I've downvoted them organically a ton of times. Setting up your own instance to do it automatically is next level petty and definitely should be blocked.

This is why I love the fediverse. Each instance can decide what to do with this information and when. We don't need to wait for one single admin on their throne to make a decision for the entire ~~site~~ network. Reddit, insta, and others would have to ask their advertisers first if this is OK or not. Admins here can go "right, fuck off" and either band the bots or tell the instance admins to do something or be defederated.

It wouldn't surprise me if bot writers like this forced parts of the fediverse into a "who knows who" network where certain instances only allow federation if you're introduced by another trusted instance admin. And probably they'll add federated block-lists so when a user is blocked on one instance and tries to create multiple accounts with the same email on different servers, they are automatically blocked on those too.

The cat and mouse games are starting and it will force the fediverse to adapt. As much as I dislike these bot users, they are like bacteria, viruses, or vermin, and the body has to adapt to the intruders. It'll make it strong. Now it's downvoting bots, in the future, it could be Russian disinformation bots. I'm confident the fediverse will respond better than big tech.

I almost support automated downvoting of Universalmonk's ban evasion alts.

harrassing fascists out of your community when the admins won't do anything is good actually.

i thought the votes didnt matter on lemmy