We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I’m seeing a trend:
https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://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.
Geez, putting me on blast a bit 😆
For the record, I only downvoted
twothree of the linked posts (once each!)Nothing is secret on the internet these days.
You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you’d like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.