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.
Wouldn’t a detection system be way better? I can see a machine learning model handling this rather well. Correlate the main accounts to their upvoters across all their posts and create a flag if it returns positive. It would be more of a mod tool, really.
I have already ran into a very obvious Russian troll factory account and it really drags down the quality of the place. Freedom of speech shouldn’t extend to war criminals and I’d rather leave any clusterfuck that allows it, whether they do it through will or incompetence.