While you can vet and audit votes, it’s trivial to set up a voting ring on Lemmy. There’s no CAPTCHAs and shadow banning like Reddit does for suspicious behaviour, defederating is the only solution.
There was one server that had a couple thousand “accounts” for a voting ring, got a post warning about voting rings up top, and then got defederated. Someone who’s less obvious about it could easily use a hundred votes to get any post they agree with to the top of most ranking algorithms, or get them to the bottom if they disagree, because Lemmy just isn’t as big as Reddit.
While you can vet and audit votes, it’s trivial to set up a voting ring on Lemmy. There’s no CAPTCHAs and shadow banning like Reddit does for suspicious behaviour, defederating is the only solution.
There was one server that had a couple thousand “accounts” for a voting ring, got a post warning about voting rings up top, and then got defederated. Someone who’s less obvious about it could easily use a hundred votes to get any post they agree with to the top of most ranking algorithms, or get them to the bottom if they disagree, because Lemmy just isn’t as big as Reddit.