You can add them to any community :) I added a low volume feed to [email protected] as a test, and you can see the recent post it made

You can also chain multiple commands in one message iirc

I’m looking around for other feeds that don’t have too much spam. Some ideas include

• updates on new releases for FOSS projects
• the patients feed for [email protected], but the feed itself is down currently

I guess it could end up being an arms race.

What if the tool was more of a toolbox, where each instance could configure it the way that they want (ex. Thresholds before something is flagged, etc.) Similar to how automod works, where the options are well known but it’s hard to tell what any particular space is running behind the scenes.

At the very least, tools like this can make it harder for silent vote manipulation even if it doesn’t stop it entirely

I think what we need is an automated solution which flags groups of accounts for suspect vote manipulation.

We appreciate the work you put into this, and I imagine it took some time to put together. That will only get harder to do if someone / some entity puts money into it.

Would you be able to take a screenshot of the map and edit that in as the link URL? Nice thumbnails help a post be seen, and it might let people see the map when the site is getting a hug of death 😄

Then just have the website link at the top of the post

edit: It loaded for me, and I see why a screenshot wouldn’t make sense. There’s so much cool detail, thanks for sharing!

Closest I can think of might be the [email protected] [email protected] communities

Wow this would look really cool on a t-shirt / hoodie

But I didn’t know Mbin could federate with Lemmy. But I’m sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won’t federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.

I think all of these are "don’t federate well currently ", but it’s a goal to improve federation over time

For example, Lemmy is federating with Mastodon better than when I first joined. It’s also possible to subscribe to peertube channels from Lemmy, but it’s a bit buggy.

That looks very filling! How did you prepare the rice?

Oh so firefish.io was related, that’s unfortunate

I’ve used the term “threadiverse” for a while and it’s been in use from before Meta threads was widely advertised, but I agree that it can be confusing now

It would be nice to have a descriptor for the format. For example, Mastodon & Misskey are ‘Microblogging’ platforms. Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed, and Sublinks are _____ platforms.

For what it’s worth, admins/employees on Reddit (or any other website) can also see upvote records.

Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

I’m not sure if there is a good way to have the content federate anonymously. Even if there was, it would be a vector for spam.

Vote manipulation is a growing problem on Reddit. It’s only getting worse with all the AI spam bots and they don’t have an incentive to stop it. Why trust a review on Reddit if bots are upvoting/downvoting on behalf of a company, or worse what happens in news communities when a well funded group wants to change perspectives.

Admins need to know if the votes/likes coming in are legitimate, else they should block them. It’s too easy to abuse anonymous votes to affect how content is ranked.

I left a long comment in the other thread which I will link in a moment, but I think either

1. We keep the current setup, but we put in more effort to make new users aware that vote records are visible to admins/mods
2. We make it public for everyone and take steps to deal with the new issues that it could cause

Other comment on the benefits/issues: https://lemmy.ca/comment/11097046

Which is a good point, I included it in my longer comment here

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11097046

I think the change would make it accessible to non-admin users

Gathered some thoughts here

Potential positives:

• Any admin can already review voting activity, but some people don’t realize that. This change would make it less surprising
• it would make it easier for non-admin users to study voting activity and find abuse
• it would make it consistent with other platforms that we federate with, which can already see votes

Potential downsides:

• People will report voting activity that they don’t like, even if it’s not malicious.

  • Admins will need to set up rules on what activity they will act on (and also take action against people that spam bad reports).
  • It would also help to have automated tools to review voting activity since it’s hard to do that manually.

• It’s another option for abuse, similar to bringing up past comment history

Both could be dealt with but it would make moderation somewhat harder

Likely bad:

• Mods and admins can ban people for upvoting content in communities they aren’t in charge of. This might work on a small scale, but I’d caution against it because it often misses nuance:
  • it’s very easy to accidentally vote on something while scrolling (unless there is a consistent pattern)
  • even if the community is seen as “bad”, the post might be good (ex. it could be calling out the community)

Bad

• it lowers the barrier for other types of abuse, such as tracking vote activity for advertising, approximating when a user is asleep, etc

I don’t think there is an equivalent of Boosting or Sharing on here. Those functions don’t really match the format of these platforms, since content is promoted in feeds/communities with the upvotes (favourites) and posts are placed in communities rather than user profiles

Info on how you are sharing to the wider Fediverse and beyond, out of curiosity :)

I’m familiar with sharing from Mastodon to Lemmy, but I don’t know much about how to target platforms outside of that.

Do you have a link to more info on how this works? Also hello :)

Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

Why does this happen? Lemmy doesn’t get mentioned in articles, but Lemmy is still fairly small. Last I checked, Mastodon is doing well against the competitors. BBC even has an experimental instance

https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Hello!

Do you have a link to see how we look from your end?