This is some small internet bullshit i'm here for
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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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
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 βoh wow itβs real.β Canβt believe some people are getting multiple a day. That would be annoying as hell
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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
Streisand effect dude. π€¦ββοΈ
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.
Damn, I never thought about it this way. Wow. I always took it as a funny thing not thinking of the person in the photo being an actual person who could very well be harassed. Thank you for bringing this to light. Whoever thought of this is a good human being. <3
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I thought she loved me.
She loves us
π οΈ (my instance doesn't have a hammer and sickle so this will do)
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Understandable.
I've been thinking this since it started and saying it for a bit. I don't understand at all how there were memes of this on the front page all the time and it took this long to do even this. Has there been any attempt at an effort to notify whoever is in the picture that this is happening? I would like to help if possible.
I think "notify her" feeds the harassment they're referring to, even if contacting her is well intended
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I can't believe I managed to never get one of these spam messages. I didn't even know what a Nicole was until the week or two ago.
Don't say it out loud! I said the same thing a couple weeks ago, and it's a weekly thing now.
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I heard people talking about it, but just got the message last week. It felt strangely like an initiation. There's even a link to a discord. I'm terribly curious what goes on there, but don't want to risk whatever possible ramifications of joining a prolific spammer's Discord server.
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WTF is a Nicole image
Edit: After seeing responsesβ¦. I got it weeks ago but just ignored it as spam and didnβt even read it. The pic jogs my memory
How long have you been here? I've only been here a few weeks and got no fewer than ten of these messages.
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Nicole AKA the fediverse girl/chick
I assumed it was something like a pig butchering crypto scam.
Glad to see there's effort being taken to stop this, as someone who's been harassed in a similar way on here it really kind of bugs me that people are making light of this or assume that the original person is the one doing this. Impersonation is frighteningly easy on the Fediverse and I really wish they'd add some kind of verification in Lemmy like they do in Mastodon to try and minimize the impact of it.
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.
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