Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance's communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.
Has anyone else experienced anything like that lately or is it just me?
52 Comments
sundaymidnight@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 195d
Friend, with all due respect, there are some people here who belong in a hospital. Mental illness.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 195d
A sizeable chunk of us were banned from Reddit. I’m convinced some of those bans were justified.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 195d
We're the internet's Australia
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 195d
That all internet and social media
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 195d
yeah I think that is a big thing people have to keep in mind with the internet. I try my best to love you all but I don't make decisions with what I "learn" from hanging it out internet spaces. I sometimes laugh at myself when I get to upset by something.
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 195d
Whenever I’m in too deep in an online argument I’m comforted by the wise words of one Rick Sanchez:
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
You will never catch me!
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 195d
Today sure has one with a tool bag posing anti trans stuff and non tagged nsfw posts.
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org · 29 pts · 195d
Nothing since Nicole for me.
michael@piefed.chrisco.me · 5 pts · 195d
Same. Its been pretty great!
pseudo@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 195d
Some women wanted to donate me her retirement savings so I open a homeless shelter in Germany but that's it.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 195d
Not seeing it out here in the .world instance, but then again I'm not engaging with trans, autism, or furry communities as much as I think that you are. Sounds as though you've caught a homophobe troll's attention, owing to the KYS & astroturfing DM, and false reporting. Bounce this upstairs to your instance's mods, and let others know who they are.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 12 pts · 195d
I only had a DM once but never happened again,, maybe a troll targeted you? The dm, btw
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 195d
That's quite funny
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 195d
this is hilarious.
Salamence@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 195d
Im not sure about the porn spam, but the abusive dm is probably from the Feddit.org admin acussing you of being an astrosurfer https://lemmy.zip/post/58901499/24578452 @Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Emopunker@feddit.org · 0 pts · 195d
No I didn't, though. There is legitimately someone who has been doing this stuff for at least eight months now and I originally thought it was another antiyanks attack, but other admins told me that transphobia is untypical of antiyanks.
Also if you can link the account, I would gladly ban it at least from Feddit.
Diva@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 195d
it looks like you've been getting targeted for abuse by a feddit.org admin, saying you're the same person for upvoting the db0 thread about feddit.org being zionist
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 195d
Wow... that... I have no words for that. That is beyond despicable. I had a feeling things were bad when I saw the governance thread but that's way way worse than I thought.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 194d
Yeah they're really showing true colors
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 195d
Exhibit what 200 of why that comm shouldn't be used by anyone and commentors there are immediately suspicious
comfy@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 194d
If you have a bit of time, please collect evidence of when that targeting and harassment happens. I've already seen a few accounts using low-quality /c/MoG posts to try and demonize .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear so it's useful to have a post or posts to point to showing that it's a harassment circlejerk, not the credible spectators they pretend to be.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 194d
The ones that need to hear it will ignore it or just say it's from ml so can be ignored :(
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 195d
I think this may depend on the instance you're on. The "trans" spam bot hit up my sister's account but she's on fedia/mbin. I haven't noticed the other abuses per se to be like. Rampant or anything.
But I also don't check DM's.
Emopunker@feddit.org · 7 pts · 195d
Going through all the reports is a pain in the ass today.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 6 pts · 195d
No. I blocked all the anime, furry, porn, and any aggressive subs that consistently read like screaming. If that matters, maybe do the same.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 195d
Same. A new one sneaks up on me like Aquaman sometimes, but I kill it with fire.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
Not spam per se, but there does seem to be a sharp uptick in brand new accounts making tons of posts and getting banned. It seems every day I see numerous posts made by users that are already banned by whatever community they posted in (by the time I see them.) Mods must be working overtime.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 195d
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 195d
My legit accounts are as follows:
Yes I know this is excessive and I created many of them either when I was less sure of the Fediverse or because I wanted some activity separation in who I follow or communities I'm part of. And also because of Federation issues as well. I also was kind of hoping Lemmy would have something in the future where accounts like this can be merged into a single nomadic account. I had heard of something like that but I can't find it now :/
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
Now that is some enthusiasm for the fediverse.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 195d
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 195d
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 195d
I created it a while back because I thought having the username occupied would prevent this sort of thing from happening. I was more naive back then and didn't think someone would be pathetic enough to use misspellings and lookalikes to get around that 😔.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 189d
What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 188d
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 187d
Nope, that's a user created account and a user created note. 😊
frongt@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 195d
Nope, haven't noticed. I do see a lot of spam removed whenever I look at the mod log though. Some level of spam is always to be expected.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 3 pts · 195d
It happens. A very highly intelligent user will occasionally post something in a lot of communities and gets a rise out of downvotes, annoyed comments, and blocks. It's annoying but that is often the nature of the internet. Report, block, and move on.
It's only the very highly intelligent users who do this. So it doesn't happen a lot.
Don't engage with anybody you don't know well on DMs. And if some other very highly intelligent person goes to the effort of sending you abuse via DM, take pride that you really got under their skin. Ignore it if you can.
sundaymidnight@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 195d
in Fediverse, the trolls are the reporters, blockers, indignant ones...
"oh, you talked with ChatGPT" BLOCK
"oh, you use cryptos" BLOCK
"oh, you said that in left wing there are thieves" BLOCK
"oh, you don't know what is queer" BLOCK
(they said in from sites hosted in Google Cloud)
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 195d
This seems to be an unpopular opinion but i personally had someone block me for presumably being too friendly and sincere, after an initial comment where i had agreed with them and defended their downvoted comment.
A second person blocked me after i pointed out that the person they where calling ai/a bot is in fact a well loved moderator of the community they tried to be a part of and they where simply misreading the room.
I don’t really mind that people remove themselves but it does worry me that tolerance of others have gotten so low that ideologically similar people will label each other enemies based on very basic misunderstandings of topics they agree about.
sundaymidnight@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
maybe I don't express it well, but the concept is right... you can't sell me the bottled intolerance like superiority
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 195d
oooh. im a big block proponent so you know if you can't be a troll you can be a troll supporter. oh um. mmmm. I guess that only works with athletics.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
I’ve been here for a couple of years now and have never gotten anything like that. I even occasionally ban people (which I can’t imagine they are too happy about). 🤷♂️
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 3 pts · 195d
Seen two spam comments today.
I have everything sorted by new though and they were gone shortly after reporting.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
Oh, they're 10 and learned reddit terms.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 195d
No but maybe you tell me where all this porn spam is active so I can stay away from it.
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 195d
It came from an instance called chatgptjailbreak.tech. Seems like my instance defederated them.
HubertManne@piefed.social · -4 pts · 195d
yeah it was just a joke comment.
AsrieltheWanderer@lemmy.ml · -6 pts · 195d
I saw it earlier. Also got spammed by an asshole telling me to kill myself. Lemmy is going to shit these days. I'm thinking about going back to Reddit, or digg. At least they don't have shit like this there. Spam like this gets squashed quickly there. /s
Skavau@piefed.social · 16 pts · 195d
lol
ageedizzle@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 195d
AsrieltheWanderer@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 195d
Thank you, will look into that.
ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social · 4 pts · 195d
You forgot the /s
AsrieltheWanderer@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 195d
sorry
Diva@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 195d
just as an FYI, it looks like you've been getting targted for abuse by a feddit.org admin, saying you're the same person for upvoting the thread about feddit.org being zionist
edit, as the admin in question replied to me and is banned, so I can't respond otherwise:
@Emopunker@feddit.org, the MeanwhileonGrad comm is a cesspool, you posted there in a thread complaining about your instance getting defederated for its rampant zionism. You used your ability as an admin to view the votes on that thread and complained about users who upvoted the thread.
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
They then started getting DM harassment, along with other people who have been vocally anti-zionist lately.
Nobody said it's literally you doing it, however it is you who are the one fanning the flames.
Emopunker@feddit.org · 1 pts · 195d
No. I said I had the feeling that the accounts could be associated with each other. Also I never contacted Aster or any of the others in the screenshot. There is a troll trying to get both at me and at other users and trying to fan the flames.