2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club

https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/188744

Beats me what anybody would get out of vote manipulation on lemmy - there are no sponsors, no money involved AFAIK. What’s the payoff, upvotes?
Winning the hearts and minds in a propaganda / information war at relatively low cost
The person being downvoted is the mod of c/conservative. I’m guessing this is a political maneuver to bury his posts/bully him off lemmy
We don’t need bots to do that!
Which one, because all of them have been rightfully conquered for the proletariat other than whatever Universal Monk is getting up to
Pettiness. I guess some people suffer from such extreme grass deficiency that they’ll go through all the trouble of setting up bots to do fully automated luxury harassment instead of small-batch hand-raised harassment.