PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated - eviltoast

The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.

Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.

      • AndrewZabar@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Ah ok. Yeah I thought the markdown was the same as reddit being markdown but it used to have a toolbar.

        Thanks for response.

        Also I’ve wondered why don’t they have an underline markdown.

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          Fun fact: old reddit used to use one of the header functions as an underline. I think it was 5x # that did it. However, this was an unofficial implementation of markdown, and it was discarded with new reddit. Also, being a header function you could only apply it to an entire line or paragraph, rather than individual words.