The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.

Edit: It is now open for both of them, or was already. I checked the Fediseer page for both instances and it still says that their registrations are closed.

Though it is suspicious that no captcha, email confirmation or manual approval is required for both of these instances. The admin of lemmy.doesnotexist.club seems to be inactive since their account creation yet this instance is still running. If the admin is the attacker, it could also be that they are the one behind the recent nicole spam.

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/chinese.lol

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.doesnotexist.club

cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

  • lemmy.doesnotexist.club
  • chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

bot-list

LightIsland@chinese.lol MagnificentRow@chinese.lol FondKnowledge@chinese.lol SillyTowel95@chinese.lol HelplessDear@chinese.lol SomberBrain@chinese.lol InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol CoarseHair420@chinese.lol BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club JoyousDouble@chinese.lol UnitedPatience@chinese.lol MajesticArea@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SinfulConference@chinese.lol MoralDivide96@chinese.lol LeadingCarry65@chinese.lol FrillyOpinion38@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LimitedDiscount49@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ForkedScreen@chinese.lol MediumChemistry13@chinese.lol xXxLawfulGrassxXx@lemmy.doesnotexist.club VisibleSentence@chinese.lol AcidicLawyer90@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PriceySink14@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ExcellentBeach@chinese.lol VivaciousNews@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LankyIndependent32@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SpeedyFault@chinese.lol ConcreteHall89@lemmy.doesnotexist.club WorthyPoint12@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SurprisedAdult99@chinese.lol FlashyCrack@lemmy.doesnotexist.club MasculineBeing@chinese.lol RichWeird@lemmy.doesnotexist.club DryCash97@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AuthorizedChair@chinese.lol SlimKiss@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AromaticRoof78@lemmy.doesnotexist.club BewitchedInterview@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ImaginaryDraw@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PertinentGround@chinese.lol SinfulAssumption@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AwkwardAnybody30@lemmy.doesnotexist.club UnwillingRestaurant@lemmy.doesnotexist.club InsubstantialOven@lemmy.doesnotexist.club

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn’t good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing ™

  • Donald MuskEnglish
    0•11 days ago

    Thank you for this.

    I know I’m viewed as controversial, but I legit want Lemmy to grow so I post a lot of content.

    But it’s always community-specific and community-appropriate. The conservative news articles that people despise me for, actually only get posted to a few conservative communities. People are free to check my post/comment history to verify.

    If people block those communities or even just block me, then they never have to see my conservative stuff. Not sure why they don’t just do that and ignore me.

    So the downvote brigading/manipulation was def out of line and goes against the spirit of Lemmy. It’s something that’s more in line with Reddit than Lemmy.

    You guys are rockstars for bringing this up. I know I’m not liked, but Lemmy is open to diverse opinions.

    YOU guys are the ones who make Lemmy awesome.

    • @Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•10 days ago

      Monk, seriously. Give it up. You got busted copying your Universal Monk comments word for word by the mods at /Politics. It’s over. Everyone knows it is you. If you truly wanted to make lemmy better, you’d stop trolling people with your alts and just leave and not hide out in your Universal Monk run communities where you can ban anyone that calls you out.

      At this point I am hoping that there should be very few left to buy this fake ass-kissing of yours.

      And hopefully, the mods of this community don’t fall for it and decide to check for themselves by reaching out to the /Politics mods.

      Ban evasion is taken pretty seriously. Especially by people that are legitimately trying to make lemmy awesome.

      • Donald MuskEnglish
        0•10 days ago

        You got busted copying your Universal Monk comments word for word by the mods at /Politics.

        I’m not Universal Monk. Please find a post that was copied word for word and post for us to see. Because I still have no clue what post that’s a reference to.

        If you truly wanted to make lemmy better, you’d stop trolling people with your alts and just leave and not hide out in your Universal Monk run communities where you can ban anyone that calls you out.

        I’m not a troll, nor have I been trolling. My post/comment history is there for all to see. Dude, I’m not Uni Monk. He’s still around and still posting. He’s still on Lemmy. Go yell at him if you’re pissed at him. It has nothing to do with me.

        How am I trolling by posting conservative news articles to conservative news communities?

        None of that has to do with this thread. There was a guy manipulating votes. He got caught. Deleted his account. It’s done. Bringing up unrelated stuff just muddies the thread and is off-topic.