I knew where this was going: 1 April 2013

Yes, it’s fine. The issue isn’t with that post. It’s with this one, specifically with the external link preview, which isn’t Lemmy’s most reliable feature. It may not be an issue that OP can mitigate, and they may not need to, unless they intend to post links to their blog posts often.

I don’t think this is a crossposting issue; I think it’s an external link preview issue.

True. Nothing beats running your unit tests in the actual container image that will be run in production.

That depends on the evidence, I suppose, and I’m not an admin for kbin.melroy.org, so I can’t ban them from your site, only mine.

But the what I would normally suggest is to report the post(s) or comment(s) for suspected vote manipulation, and let the mods & admins address them.

Admins can see the votes and identify bad actors, and they can set up automation tools. On lemmy.ml, we consider them spam accounts and ban them.

But it’s trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is.

It’s also trivial for us to defederate from such tools, which our instance and others have done in the case of lemvotes.

a peaceful nation

Let’s not go overboard.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide