There isn't and Lemmygrad.ml users have been doing it in the past. Mostly down-vote brigading though and this is the main reason why down-votes are disabled on our instance.
Personally I think there should be a setting to prevent down-votes from federating as there is really no point in federating them to instances with other rules and different community culture.
Huh - I had not even considered downvotes in other instances... Yeah that seems problematic. Maybe rather than defederating downvotes, there could be a way to differentiate between local and global up/downvotes.
This sounds interesting. I see two possibilities for that:
Actually when I think about it, a combination of both would also be possible.
Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.
As for multiple accounts - couldn't the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.
These issues are as old as the internet and can only be mitigated, not prevented.
Yeah it's a cat and mouse game sadly...
Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.
Couldn't they keep the instance running and just change the domain name? Or if not easily possible, then just have a setup script that creates a new instance under the new domain name with X number of users.
As for multiple accounts - couldn't the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.
Sure, but as mentioned it might be easier with Lemmy since they could just run their own instance. Or maybe it's harder because Lemmy admins check account creation better on their own instance and are more sceptical of other instances.
It's an interesting topic, time will tell how it's gonna be. It certainly isn't bad to talk about it already today. ;)
Reddit has some kind of detection for that and you will get banned for using alts to vote your posts up.
Please do not make it ban based, just don't count it if you somehow make a vote manipulation detector.
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