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

The instances being used are

  • lemmy.doesnotexist.club
  • chinese.lol

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

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @[email protected]

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

bot-list

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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 ™

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
      20·
      17 days ago

      It won’t reach them, since this instance (which this community is on) is not federated. I believe other instance admins tried to reach out but didn’t receive a reply.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    17 days ago

    But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

    I mean, it doesn’t look like that from the post history…

    But it seems like that’s a troll who made an innocous “science” community and people are mass down voting posts because they don’t want that person to be in charge of a serious community.

    Personally I blocked that user a long time ago tho