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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

but then malicious servers can lie about numbers of votes.

They already can do that by pretending to have users they don't have. It's definitely a quick way to get defederated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

And it wouldn't be caught quickly or maybe even ever if they opted to use hashes instead of just showing who voted and when.