Guess I'm on the right track 😌

mass downvotes mean so little on a site where posts get at most 13 comments

And deleted in a couple days.

They should know better, you obviously have a good keyboard and lots of free time. I wouldn't mess with you and I've been boxing for 20 years.

Lol you shouldn't pick online fights with people who WFH in IT 😂
- Man never give that up. I left a WFH job in IT that I wasn't really happy with, but it was fine. Left to a company where everything was better on paper. Now I work 50 hour weeks on average as salary, and don't have time to even use my benefits that actively are better.
  Never give it up. Neverrrrrrrr.

Ml, hex... what's the third suppose to be?

Lemmygrad
- Oh, it's been so long since the last time I saw something from that instance that I totally forgot them
  Thanks
- I thought that was a nickname for .ml
No, it's just new instances to easily create accounts in (why would those three be new when they're literally older than .world?)
- Is it to like muddy the waters? I can make 500 accounts on my instance if I wanted to?

I'm banned from 1 of 3...

... so far.

I mean... Who fucking cares?

The people who are too stupid or incompetent to fact check basic things.
Those without critical thinking skills

Well all of them shut down yesterday AND one of them, started a new instance in its place. already defederated, but curious...

Uh, are you serious? Why? What did you even say?

Hmmm prob a combination of:
My calls for defederation of .ml
My calls for boycotting of .ml comms
My cross-posting of content from .ml comms to non-.ml comms to reduce their influence
My constant collection of evidence of the .ml admins, mods and Tankie users
- .world isn't defederated from .ml? I thought it was, for some reason... Well, it is the admin instance so, I guess.
Generally it's because they have their hatred of .ml as the driving force of half their free time. It's weird and off-putting.
- you know what's off-putting? lemmy.ml
- Not sure about half their free time, but it does seem that anti-.ml sentiment is the reason, yes.
- Good thing I'm not trying to put you on.

I hate to ask, but can someone help me understand what .ml is doing differently? And what's a tankie? Genuinely asking

Here's a recap post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
- Thanks! (Tanks?)

ITT severe kamalacaust/lib cope.

Is there any actual evidence of downvotes?

So, you're going to just declare the admins of multiple instances just lying about things then?
https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282 https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282
https://red.computersforpeace.net/
\ https://jenny.nya.pub/
\ https://fun.with.kyun.li/
All came online within the day it happened and all are now offline now that they've been widely defederated from and useless. With notable mentions to downvote troll accounts @FourGreenFields@feddit.org and @TheDregg@lemmy.world who were also banned
People saying "yes there's proof" but aren't giving any. Weird...

I’m new here and still grasping the way the fediverse works.

Is this basically saying 3 user accounts were made for the mass downvoting or what’s happening?

Instances are more like servers or domains. Your instance is lemmy.world. We can see votes from individual users because votes federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0).
In order for that federation to happen, the votes must be public. This prevents a rogue instance from just lying and telling other instances “yeah all my shit is super upvoted” and pushing itself to the top, or inversely pushing others down by spoofing downvotes. It also allows instances to properly block banned users; If I’m banned from a community/instance, my individual votes shouldn’t count towards it. So anyone with the know-how can inspect which individual users have voted on posts, and how they have voted.
Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts on each, just to mass downvote. It’s just blatant vote manipulation, and is why the admin stepped in to defederate (stop sending info back and forth) from the rogue instances.
You see stuff like that occasionally from the “tankie triad” instances, (lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmygrad) but they’re usually more subtle about it to avoid instantly getting defederated.
- We can see votes from individual users because votes to federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0). Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts on each, just to mass downvote.
  So where can we see this?
Little bit more.
Someone made 3 servers, then a bunch of accounts on those servers, then used all of those accounts to downvote.
Allegedly because I ain't got the time to manually verify that myself.
- Thanks for the elaborating.
- Allegedly because I ain’t got the time to manually verify that myself.
  Crucial footnote.
Servers, not users. Though each server would have users.
Although I don't think they're bots like the post is implying. OP just spends a lot of time annoying them.
What do people said, but since you're new, here's a recap post on what the whole Tankie situation is about (if you didn't encounter them on Reddit lol
- That "recap post" from you looks alot more like you attacking tankies than vice versa.