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[โ€“] cadekat@pawb.social 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's quite interesting, thank you! So for an instance to manipulate votes, they'd have to stream a bunch of fake events.

[โ€“] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Essentailly. Theres a couple of peertube instances that had that issue if i recall. Filters started to go up a coupke of years ago. Admins can see it pretty easy in the logs most of the time once its pointed out. Its a timing thing. Some software is beyter at it than others.