We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I’m seeing a trend:
aussie.zone/post/21203876
aussie.zone/post/21124048
aussie.zone/post/21194319
aussie.zone/post/21130833
The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don’t appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn’t even resolve.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Please don’t scare me with a title like that so soon after an election.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
That sort of vote manipulation wouldn’t be posted to this community. 😄
I’m a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Right I was worried they would demand a redo and it might not go so well