Oh, I think I got one of those. It's that girl with the bong, right?
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.
Understandable.
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?
At least 4 or 5.
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.
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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.
I just got my first one a couple days ago so yeah. It's pretty widespread.
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
I mean depending how its handled and on context, yes of course, but I'm not suggesting we traumatize this person further than whatever has already happened. Like someone else said letting the university is a decent first step.
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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.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beet....
Wait, what movie am I watching again?
Yes. I too feel left out.
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I gotta give it to you guys. The foresight to prevent a disaster is 10/10. Top tier. Well done.
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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.
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Is this Nicole thing really still a thing? Thatβs so like back when I still had a 401k.
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About damn time. The joke has run it's course a long time a ago and if these posts are victimizing an individual they most definitely need to be stopped.
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I can't wait for the future 4 hour video deep dive into Nicole history and lore.
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To clarify for others, as I have no interest in doing this myself, but if people feel like sharing, are they allowed to do so provided they censor the pictire/remove it entirely from a screenshot? Not sure why someone would, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.
potentially identifying information, such as addresses, must be removed. images of the person must either be heavily pixelated or entirely cut out.
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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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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
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