For values of “public info” that involve running an instance and inspecting the database. Also lemmy.ml itself has quite a high proportion of tankies as it’s the instance that tankies tend to use to interact with instances defederating lemmygrad.ml.
Yes. But those instances are a) young, which the lemmygrad userbase isn’t, and b) not run by the lemmygrad admins.
Also, not at all all instances are open to be a source of posts that tankies would like to make. Both lemmy.ml and lemm.ee have a rule saying “no bigotry”, how that’s interpreted is a completely different thing with people getting banned from lemmy.ml for “orientalism”. Not in the “Marx was eurocentric” sense but “you’re not Chinese so you can’t criticise China” one.
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.
Maybe take some time to inspect the votes? They’re not coming from lemmygrad. It’s all public info
For values of “public info” that involve running an instance and inspecting the database. Also lemmy.ml itself has quite a high proportion of tankies as it’s the instance that tankies tend to use to interact with instances defederating lemmygrad.ml.
You know that the lemmygrad users could make an account on another instance like yours to interact with the wider fediverse
Yes. But those instances are a) young, which the lemmygrad userbase isn’t, and b) not run by the lemmygrad admins.
Also, not at all all instances are open to be a source of posts that tankies would like to make. Both lemmy.ml and lemm.ee have a rule saying “no bigotry”, how that’s interpreted is a completely different thing with people getting banned from lemmy.ml for “orientalism”. Not in the “Marx was eurocentric” sense but “you’re not Chinese so you can’t criticise China” one.
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.