I hate to break this to you, but there’s only 43 people on lemmy at all. We’re all just pretending to be everyone, including you.
You aren’t you at all, you’re a constructed personality inside someone’s mind with a lifetime of false memories and a thin veneer of “free will” to give you the illusion of being a real person.
And of those 43, 42 are just multiple rats sharing a trenchcoat.
You better get away from my peanuts, willard!
wait, so i am you, and you are me. would that make us one big happy family?
Absolutely!
Lemmy! The place where everything is made up, and the points don’t matter!
😈 🐛
Sure SatansMaggotyCumFart. How many other alts do you have?
By a strange coincidence, ninety-nine.
You spelled sixty-eight wrong.
Who tf has time for that? The downvote button doesn’t even work and upvotes mean nothing.
Who pays attention to votes?
On reddit, it was obvious that people would read the headline then check out the top comment to find out what their opinion of the headline should be.
Nothing except the rules of most instances against vote manipulation. It’s very easy to determine alts and votes on Lemmy aren’t anonymous.
That’s one reason I love that there is no “karma” score on Lemmee. There’s less incentive to recycle old memes, shill for upvotes, etc. But yeah for propaganda purposes, it can totally be done, probably is being done right now.
Instance admins can easily see who downvoted or upvoted what tho.
How do I know you’re not a bot sent here by Steve Huffman to sow discord and create chaos on Lemmy because he’s a small petty man?
Hmm? 🧐
That is, indeed, my entire point. Thank you for reinforcing it.
JUST WHAT A BOT WOULD SAY!!! 🤖🤖🤖
I have 27 Accounts
…on twenty seven instances
Yes of course, having them on the same instance makes no sense.
The lack of meaningful proof that it’s not the case, bring on the consistent downvotes.
That’s not how it works. If you claim something and want it to be validated, you need proof.
You don’t randomly claim things and get other people to disprove you
They made the mistake of downvoting me too many times too quickly.
No, you’re just wrong and boring at the same time.
Votes on this comment:
- Came from 14 different instances - many of them major. Of those instances, the instance with the most votes contributed was lemmy.world (i.e. your own instance), from which my instance has seen 14 votes for that comment.
- Of the voters, I looked at the distribution of the person IDs assigned on my instance, which approximately represents the order they were seen by my instance (e.g. they voted on or interacted with another comment). If there was vote manipulation, I’d expect to see lots of IDs close together. However, there are not runs of IDs that are close together. To avoid this when manipulating votes, they’d need to have planned in advance, and made accounts and used them individually over time before finally deploying them to downvote you.
If there are instances that are a significant source of vote manipulation, and the local admins are unwilling to address it, there are options available to instance admins like defederation.
However - in the case of your comments, there is no meaningful evidence of vote manipulation.
