Does ActivityPub send those to other instances, or does ActivityPub only send the original post and the rest (upvotes, downvotes, replies) are stored only on the original server where the post was made?

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honestly votes being federated seems like a bad idea imo. Would be easy to spin up an instance with thousands of fake users and manipulate posts.

    Fediverse is already big enough that it could be lucrative to do so.

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      1 year ago

      So then everyone just blacklists that instance. If the problem is really severe, we move to whitelisting.

      It’s not hard to identify when someone is doing this.