Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 hours agothats fair I suppose, though in practice id assume that making a whole bunch of individual instances is probably more difficult than making a much of accounts on one instance that you control, and thus vote manipulation in this manner should have a higher barrier to entry?
Skavau@piefed.social 11 hours ago
I mean to be fair, a user could simply make accounts across the hundreds of tiny forgotten fediverse servers that exist and upvote and downvote from there, skewing results.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Hmm, that is fair. I would suggest making votes not federate at all in that case, except doing that would make single person or very small instances effectively be limited to sorting by new