This annoys the fuck out of me and I hope whoever is behind it doesn't realize their goals, because I don't want lemmy to degrade into a bunch of spam PMs.
TBF, it's bound to happen.
Guaranteed almost.
Lemmy has minimal controls for protecting against spam and bot spam. It's built to handle the internet 5 to 10 years ago, not the internet today.
I can only hope that this changes because as soon as the platform becomes popular enough (which it is slowly). Then the rate of bot spam and other sorts of spam will just go through the roof, and there's very little that admins can do to combat it without it becoming a full-time job.
We can have an opt in spam filter that makes it harder, the instances can defederate spamming instances (user) unless they do something which yes there is a lot admins can do at signup. Or have I misunderstood something?
I don't either want to see story on TV about Internet hacker group "Lenny" destroying womans life by a persistent harassment campaign.
I finally got one a week ago. Have many of you gotten them?
There's an entire community of people who get them. I think it's called "Nicoled" but likely shitting down now. Some people were getting up to tens per day.
Jfc I got my first today and was like “oh wow it’s real.” Can’t believe some people are getting multiple a day. That would be annoying as hell
I gotta give it to you guys. The foresight to prevent a disaster is 10/10. Top tier. Well done.
to be honest, this should have been done way earlier.
Still glad you're doing it now!
Oh, I think I got one of those. It's that girl with the bong, right?
Yes, but there are a few pictures around from all of it
This is some small internet bullshit i'm here for
I've heard that if you actually add her on friendica, the mayor of Toronto shows up at your house and gives you an old fashioned.
I'll give it a go
Yeah it seemed funny at first but the longer this went on the creepier it got as we all realized this isn't just a catfish.
Whoever is doing this to the actual person in the photos is a terrible human being and should go climb under a rock for the rest of their lives.
Agreed. When the images started to change it got really creepy.
Understandable.
I can't wait for the future 4 hour video deep dive into Nicole history and lore.
Wait, there are people who genuinely believe she's the one behind it?
I thought it was pretty obvious that she's the target of harassment. Some people must be new to the Internet
Yeah, I've been targeted by enough romance spam that I just assume any photo of a woman I don't know was probably stolen from some random Tumblr or Instagram.
Is this Nicole thing really still a thing? That’s so like back when I still had a 401k.
Who is Nicole and why should I care?
It's a lemmy specific spam where someone's pretending to be a girl from Canada and calling themselves Nicole. Mostly through private messages tho.
Not just Lemmy, they followed me on mastodon.
Considering the spammer has used so many different photos, and they all seem to be "in the moment" webcam photos, I suspect they may have webcam spyware on the victim's computer
Could be completely AI generated with variations of the same person. But that doesn't really matter, the spam needs to go.
I have no context for this and thought it was an April fools joke left up but no, this is a real problem here?
I think I've gotten about 5 messages in total. Multiply that across the fediverse, and that's potentially a lot of irritation.
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