The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.

Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Two solutions that I see:

    1. Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
    2. Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.
    • @WanderA
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      51 year ago

      No need to make all federation under a whitelist. It’s enough to ignore votes from suspicious instances or reduce their weight.

        • @WanderA
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          21 year ago

          New instances would have a lower voting weight by default.