Yeah, you need to read the whole story to see how they are abusing those votes, gang behavior, swarming, by someone down-voting them, using this outside tool. I think there are other exploits as well.

Gotcha, well that is unfortunate, as it is obviously being used by some, go$fsckyourself, for exploit.

I have no idea how the admin tools work, so asking the wrong person. He told me they ‘plan to’ ban it, didn’t say how…or when. I have already escalated the issue, now that go$fskyourself and his bullying gang have shown themselves over this incident, to the actually lemmy programmers. They were already aware of this outside tool, and it didn’t sound like they were happy about it, but left the issue dangling. I have re-opened it showing the abuse from go$fsckyourself and how it can harm others, so we will see what can be done.

I assume one can create a community and gain admin tools? If that is true, can you then use that tool to also see up/down votes by users outside your own community? If so, that would be another easy exploit for a user wanting this tool.

Edit to add: The programmer of Lemmy replied;

Unfortunately, instances need to explicitly block snooping tools like lemvotes, and also discover other sites/tools that are exposing votes, and adding them to blocklists. Reach out to your server admins and ask them to instance block it.

So, apparently instances/admins can ban this tool.

You are still exposed by using Apple products. Use linux for PC’s with encryption, vpn. For a phone, switch to device, such as a Google Pixel, or several other manufacturers that can use a privacy android rom. I use CalyxOS, private, secure and de-googled.

Lets not forget…operation PRISM which was exposed by Snowden.

I am the user in reference. Did I use another instance to down-vote, yes in this case. Why? because I felt I was backed into a corner. In hindsight, I should have contacted the mod admin or whomever, but this was not the first time they have done this to me, it happened also on memes @ lemmy world. I am sure others have come across their behavior on meme sites.

The complete story, which go $fsk yourself conveniently leaves out, is that he is part of a gang/group of users that go around meme sites, and other art related sites, and harass people who use AI. Here is their base of operation. They even use it to not only go after users, but communities. Firstly, some AI memes are hard to detect if AI is even involved. I can hardly tell at times, nor do I really care, but this anti-AI fascist group of users seem to police most memes and point a finger and cry “YOU ARE USING AI!!”, as if they alone can determine for us. Didn’t the Nazi’s do this sort of behavior when they banned/burned “questionable” books?

The real issue is they are using an outside tool, as noted below, to harass users. How do you know this? Well, look at the OP’s link to the post in question. Is go $fsk yourself or any of the other anti-AI posters there commenting on the meme’s content? No, they are there with their agenda…to harass and bully people who us AI. He is trying to cover it up and play the victim, as they have done before.

I apologize to the community for using the alts, it won’t happen again, but there is a much serious issue here. The fact that a user is using an outside tool on your community and others, and even so bold as to teach others, as noted below, how to use it to go after other users. Here is the tool he is using.. The community (Lemmy Shitpost) has already decided to ban this tool going forward. The admin DM’d me. This should be banned by Lemmy World as a whole.

Here is another example of go $fsk yourself going after someone else.

And here he is and his tag-team gang going after lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Source

I have it set in QBittorent to delete them automatically when added. I like to stay tidy. Actually, I probably use more magnet torrents than regular, no mess, no fuss.