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 ™

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    141·
    16 days ago

    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.