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 ™

    • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s pretty neat to have as a mod. But I don’t think it should be readily available for any average Joe.

      Sometimes people are looking for anything to get angry about, myself included. And I really don’t want to get into a slap fight with someone whose dick pic I downvoted.

      • Lena@gregtech.eu
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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          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.

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              3 months ago

              That’s what I meant by admins/mods, thus I still think my point is still valid: not private, but not exactly public.

              • Lena@gregtech.eu
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                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.

          • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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            Anyone can set up a server, make themselves an admin, and federate with other servers. That’s what makes it decentralized.

    • Donald J. Musk@lemmy.today
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      How do I use this for different instances? I’m thinking of starting an instance. Is tesseract good for any instance or just dubvee?