Comment on Lemmy vote aggregation idea

• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hosting your own instance is not option for the majority of people.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.

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    • DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There are examples of that already.

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Creating a fake instance is easier to send out votes is cheaper and easier that you think. You need only one domain and a script.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It won’t stop the people interested in doing Nass-manipulation of votes. There is no virtual difference between a bit that votes through Lemmy and a bot that votes through “pure” ActivityPub.

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