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

bot-list

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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 ™

  • jonne@infosec.pub
    28·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • vaguerant@fedia.io
      16·
      15 days ago

      chinese.lol does seem to be a real instance from a quick glance, albeit one which is clearly being weaponized thanks to lax moderation.

      lemmy.doesnotexist.club is weird, there are literally zero posts or comments in the Local tab, so it may specifically exist for this purpose.

        • vaguerant@fedia.io
          4·
          14 days ago

          Oh wow, I just checked my old messages and none of the actual nicole accounts come from that instance, but one of the images was hosted there. Definitely sketchy.