The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.
Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.
They were also caught about a month ago using fake accounts to sway opinion against the moderator protests, by using fully automated chatgpt responses:
One comment was verbatim:
Then the bot accounts involved were deleted and hidden in a demonstrably unique way.
https://lemmy.world/post/1041251