• Maeve@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    What’s stopping you from blocking a particular instance? Why do you want to block it from me?

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      7 months ago

      Nobody is blocking you from it. You can go find an instance that doesn’t defederate. You can make an account with them. Literally nobody is stopping you.

      If the admins of your instance agree it should be defederated and you disagree, then I guess that instance isn’t a good fit for you.

      This isn’t like… a difficult concept, so I have to ask what it is about it that you’re struggling with.

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          7 months ago

          If you can’t even be bothered to write a coherent sentence then I have to say I’m not too concerned about what you have to say.

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              7 months ago

              Oh wow… vote manipulation how? Like using alts or something else? How do you detect this? I am so curious now.

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                7 months ago

                no clue of how. i just noticed a suspiciously symmetrical jump in the numbers and i reported it off a hunch. i wasn’t at all sure until my admin dm’d me to confirm i was right (i assume admins can see the IDs and times of votes and triangulate off that but that’s just a guess)

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                  7 months ago

                  Super interesting, I’ve heard often you can catch cheaters more in the data than in the specific act. So do you mean that you just noticed the sudden +4 / -4 jump? If they all came from the same IP address then that would probably be enough, I guess.

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                    7 months ago

                    yeah i just saw a good dozen or so comments across a few threads with a very obvious +6/-6 gotten within a few minutes where there had ben no votes before. im sure if you plot that data out compared to real activity it becomes pretty clear there’s something fishy. and an IP would certainly help too.

                    again no idea what kind of mod tools lemmy has this is all just conjecture on my part. but quite interesting!