2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club
from FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to fediverse@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 10:30
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24247654

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/60715570

cross-posted from: hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

  • lemmy.doesnotexist.club
  • chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

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 :::spoiler bot-list

LightIsland@chinese.lol MagnificentRow@chinese.lol FondKnowledge@chinese.lol SillyTowel95@chinese.lol HelplessDear@chinese.lol SomberBrain@chinese.lol InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol CoarseHair420@chinese.lol BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club JoyousDouble@chinese.lol UnitedPatience@chinese.lol MajesticArea@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SinfulConference@chinese.lol MoralDivide96@chinese.lol LeadingCarry65@chinese.lol FrillyOpinion38@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LimitedDiscount49@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ForkedScreen@chinese.lol MediumChemistry13@chinese.lol xXxLawfulGrassxXx@lemmy.doesnotexist.club VisibleSentence@chinese.lol AcidicLawyer90@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PriceySink14@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ExcellentBeach@chinese.lol VivaciousNews@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LankyIndependent32@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SpeedyFault@chinese.lol ConcreteHall89@lemmy.doesnotexist.club WorthyPoint12@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SurprisedAdult99@chinese.lol FlashyCrack@lemmy.doesnotexist.club MasculineBeing@chinese.lol RichWeird@lemmy.doesnotexist.club DryCash97@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AuthorizedChair@chinese.lol SlimKiss@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AromaticRoof78@lemmy.doesnotexist.club BewitchedInterview@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ImaginaryDraw@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PertinentGround@chinese.lol SinfulAssumption@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AwkwardAnybody30@lemmy.doesnotexist.club UnwillingRestaurant@lemmy.doesnotexist.club InsubstantialOven@lemmy.doesnotexist.club :::

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 ™

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Irelephant@lemm.ee on 08 Apr 10:59 next collapse

This was posted about half an hour earlier by someone else.
lemm.ee/post/60719953

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Apr 12:00 collapse

You are literally linking to the post I crossposted.

Do some lemmy clients not distinguish crossposts?

Edit: I’m wrong, see comments below.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 08 Apr 12:02 collapse

Crosspost? It’s the same community.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Apr 12:05 collapse

Okay. I see what happened lol. Someone who is instance banned from my instance first posted it on this community. Then someone crossposted to another community. Since the OP was instance banned, for me the crosspost read as the OP, and then I crossposted it to the community it was originally posted in 😭.

(This is the ugly side of federation).

grrgyle@slrpnk.net on 08 Apr 12:38 collapse

Honestly, still worth it lol

pennomi@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 11:40 next collapse

If I recall correctly, lemmy.doesnotexist.club also has some Nicole problems.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 08 Apr 13:14 next collapse

Should I be worried that I know precisely what you’re referring to?

Also, report and block is all fine and well, but my client and the web client both automatically load the image, so the miscreants know precisely which account opened it.

Not to mention that I have to open the account to block it.

Is there a better way?

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 08 Apr 14:44 collapse

Wondering this, too. I have two 'nicole' messages in my queue, but don't want to open them because that provides information to the nicol-a-rati.

18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 14:40 collapse

What is Nicole problem?

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Apr 14:41 collapse
lilythelonelygirl7@feddit.online on 08 Apr 22:48 collapse

Thanks for reporting it... I have suspended them on tootworld.social