Surely there is no way to prevent vote manipulation if you allow votes from any instance to be counted. How does lemmy plan to get lots of vote information to help sort posts on small instances without being vulnerable to manipulation?

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      Understood. And well, if you haven’t heard it before, let me say so now. I certainly suspect that there is vote manipulation that happens on reddit. Whether it’s from people on private Signal group chats sharing links to go mass vote on something, bots that take popular content and re-post it at predictable cycles, russian troll farms, or rings of “influencers” and mods who organize themselves into in-groups and out-groups supporting their own content and banning posts that call them out, etc. I think reddit has experienced manipulation and it’s something potentially ripe for abuse here as well.

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