We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I'm seeing a trend:
https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://aussie.zone/post/21130833
The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don't appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn't even resolve.
I just checked and I only downvoted ~~two~~ three of those posts.
My reason would have been some combination of a) I thought the posts didn't belong in the comm, b) I thought the news source was low quality, or c) for reasons covered in previous threads regarding “Objectification of our community":
I had noticed and was surprised by the significant downvotes on some of the posts mentioned in the OP. I figured either people were sick of it like I was, or the accounts were just under attack by accounts that serve the same function for the other side(s).