Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.
Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?
Vote manipulation has always been a banable offense on Reddit.
There was a voting ring for an eSports website where they’d share that they posted an article, then go upvote it. Their accounts were all banned. Long enough ago that I don’t remember the website now and my Google fu isn’t working, but Thorin and Travis used to work there.
I want to say the guy who was at the center was named something like ‘Slayer’. He didn’t cover content I paid attention to, so memory is even fuzzier there.