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 ™
The list of accounts is helpful. I’m going to copy+paste an idea that I had suggested elsewhere previously that someone with the means to achieve could set up to help fight these bot/astro-turf accounts:
If feasible, I think the best option would be an instance that functions similarly to how Reddit’s now defunct r/BotDefense operated and instances which want to filter out bots would federate with that. Essentially, if there is an account that is suspect of being a bot, users could submit that account to this bot defense server and an automated system would flag obvious bots whereas less obvious bots would have to be inspected manually by informed admins/mods of the server. This flagging would signal to the federated servers to ban these suspect/confirmed bot accounts. This instance would also be able to flag when a particular server is being overrun by bots and advise other servers to temporarily defederate.
There are some other ideas in that comment too, but this one is the most relevant.