PetrichorBias

joined 1 year ago
[–] PetrichorBias@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

I did it two or three times with 3-5 accounts (never all 8). I also used to ask my friends (N=~8) to upvote stuff too (yes, I was pathetic) and I wasn't warned/banned. This was five-six years ago.

[–] PetrichorBias@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't use wefwef, I use jerboa for android.

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[–] PetrichorBias@lemmy.one 185 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

This was a problem on reddit too. Anyone could create accounts - heck, I had 8 accounts:

one main, one alt, one "professional" (linked publicly on my website), and five for my bots (whose accounts were optimistically created, but were never properly run). I had all 8 accounts signed in on my third-party app and I could easily manipulate votes on the posts I posted.

I feel like this is what happened when you'd see posts with hundreds / thousands of upvotes but had only 20-ish comments.

There needs to be a better way to solve this, but I'm unsure if we truly can solve this. Botnets are a problem across all social media (my undergrad thesis many years ago was detecting botnets on Reddit using Graph Neural Networks).

Fwiw, I have only one Lemmy account.

[–] PetrichorBias@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tomatoes? Sandwiches?

I'm recommending my favorite ever cooking channel:

A Really Good Tomato Sandwich | Kenji's Cooking Show

I'm a sucker for good tomatoes.

Edited to add: it's super basic, lol.