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 ™
There is some interesting area here, like a personalized vote score, based on others who vote similar to you, giving them more weight then people you never agree with.
net-net I think open votes make for better neighbors.
PieFed has some interesting thoughts along these lines.
I actively expect to never see such a thing in Lemmy though.