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 data itself is public, clients just don’t show it. Imo clients should add that capability, the lack of privacy is better than the illusion of privacy.
It’s not exactly public, IIRC? Like, admins/mods have access, so it’s not private by any means, but I wouldn’t really call it public.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967
Due to the way federation works, it is public. Anyone could spin up an instance and make a tool to make votes public.
That’s what I meant by admins/mods, thus I still think my point is still valid: not private, but not exactly public.
I think it would be better to make it clear that people’s votes can be seen by anyone with a little technical skill, better than hiding that fact.
Anyone can set up a server, make themselves an admin, and federate with other servers. That’s what makes it decentralized.