The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.
Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.
Small instances are cheap, so we need a way to prevent 100 bot instances running on the same server from gaming this too
Well, as I said, statistical distribution is a good indicator. So, this can be generalized to a “higher degree”, and we could weight the instance by age, peering, etc. The Web-Of-Trust idea could also have instances vouching for other instances, thereby increasing their standing. Etc etc.