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cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

  • lemmy.doesnotexist.club
  • chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @[email protected]

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

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A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)

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[โ€“] mp3 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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You can validate at https://lemmy.ca/instances

Also, if those instance admins decide to cleanup the bots on their instances and use the registration application form (instead of open registration), they can reach out to us at [email protected] if they want us to consider refederating.

[โ€“] Sturgist 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Has anyone told you today that you're fucking awesome? Cause they should. You lot are one of the best admin teams I've ever seen. Thanks for what you do.

[โ€“] mp3 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They've been very helpful dealing with spam for everyone, so can confirm :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

@[email protected]
@[email protected]

Accounts on your instances are being used for mass downvoting.

[โ€“] mp3 19 points 1 week ago

It won't reach them, since this instance (which this community is on) is not federated. I believe other instance admins tried to reach out but didn't receive a reply.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

I mean, it doesn't look like that from the post history...

But it seems like that's a troll who made an innocous "science" community and people are mass down voting posts because they don't want that person to be in charge of a serious community.

Personally I blocked that user a long time ago tho

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, 100% not a fan of this, but they couldn't have picked a better target