You know we all escaped Reddit for greener pastures. But I have increasingly noticed that greener pastures are not to be found in the Fediverse either.
I undeniably witnessed some vote fuzzing this morning and I feel psychologically violated whenever I notice people or companies or platforms engaging in psychological manipulation.
It does make me feel livid.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
There is no vote fuzzing on Lemmy. Maybe you saw someone remove their upvote or change to a downvote, causing the score to change
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you for your confident assurance. I want to believe what you say is true.
But I saw the weirdest thing this morning, I made a comment on a rather old post where no one else was participating, and the comment was buried deep in the thread, highly unlikely that anyone else in the universe would even be digging in there where I was at that moment. But within a half hour my comment had 5 upvotes which I found strange, then a few minutes later it was back to 1 neutral point, where it remains and where it should be.
It was weird.
gregorum@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I change accidental votes all the time because I use a mobile app that’s heavily dependent on gestures, and swiping back often gets confused with a vote swipe.
Christian Selig spent years fine-tuning the swipe behavior in Apollo, and I guess it’ll take time before the swipe behavior in Lemmy apps reach the same level of polish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wahming@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Lemmy is open source. You’re welcome to take a look at the code yourself if you don’t believe others.
beneeney@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What is the comment in particular? It is possible that someone was sorting by new comments on the front page, which would show your comment regardless of the original post’s age. Or it could have been some odd cache anomaly, but there is definitely no vote fuzzing on Lemmy.