This only further proves the point that up/down votes are useless here. I can have an account on each federated instance (just one, so not to possibly run afoul any local server rules) and have a script to just run through all of them to downvote something. Could easily be a hundred votes at my singular whim.
If the names of the accounts are not particularly linked… you wouldn’t really be able to tell that there was much vote manipulation either.
You know that the lemmygrad users could make an account on another instance like yours to interact with the wider fediverse
This only further proves the point that up/down votes are useless here. I can have an account on each federated instance (just one, so not to possibly run afoul any local server rules) and have a script to just run through all of them to downvote something. Could easily be a hundred votes at my singular whim.
If the names of the accounts are not particularly linked… you wouldn’t really be able to tell that there was much vote manipulation either.