Comment on Reddit is a shithole
1984@lemmy.today 1 year agoThat’s true… I wonder how it handles downvotes and upvotes on comments or posts, they are also replicated right? What if some instance goes into the db and changes those numbers?
Comment on Reddit is a shithole
1984@lemmy.today 1 year agoThat’s true… I wonder how it handles downvotes and upvotes on comments or posts, they are also replicated right? What if some instance goes into the db and changes those numbers?
shrugal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Then it’s only changed on their instance. They’d need to create fake users and send votes for them. At that point others should be able to detect it as botting, at least if the impact is big enough.