Everyone I have something very important to say about The Agora.
The Problem
Let me be super clear here to something people don’t seem to understand about lemmy and the fediverse. Votes mean absolutely nothing. No less than nothing.
In the fediverse, anyone can open a instance, create as many users as they want and one person can easily vote 10,000 times. I’m serious. This is not hard to do.
Voting at best is a guide to what is entertaining.
As soon as you allow a incentive the vast majority of votes will be fake. They might already be mostly fake.
If you try to make any decision using votes as a guide someone WILL manipulate votes to control YOU.
one solution (think of others too!)
A counsel of trusted users.
The admin, top mods may set up a group to decide on who to ban and what instances to defederate from. You will not get it right 100% of the time but you also won’t be controlled by one guy in his basement, running 4 instances and 1,000 alts.
Now i’m gonna go back to shit posting.
Find people that are clearly using bots. It’s easy to do. It’s only hard if those user do not exist.
I can do it myself and show you it’s possible. It’s not hard. Actually I can walk you through it
I understand it can be done, what i’m saying is that it’s hard to be done without evidence. I don’t want you to shot a man to see that he can be shot, i’m just saying that it’s hard to find place where you can shot them without witnesses.
How is it hard? Just use a VPN, make 20 accounts. Post one thing from each per day for 5 days then when the next vote happens vote 20 times.