The "manipulation" only exists now because the vote-counting algorithms are rudimentary, but unlike reddit, they are completely transparent. Every upvote/downvo

The "manipulation" only exists now because the vote-counting algorithms are rudimentary, but unlike reddit, they are completely transparent. Every upvote/downvote is registered in the instance and relayed to the instances. This means that we can have, e.g, vote-ranking algorithms that are a lot smarter: we can have votes that boost everything vote by someone N-degrees of your friend network, or de-boosted if a upvoting ring is detected, or ignored if the account is less than X days old, etc.