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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!
I saw a theory a while back that the IPs which receive the various images get logged allowing the recipients accounts to be tied to an IP and possibly even a physical address based on the timeframe it was sent. Is that a real concern or just conspiracy, do you think?
That appears to be a baseless conspiracy theory.
Except for the gore pms, I believe all the images have been uploaded to Lemmy instances or Imgur, which means that the uploader has no way to track IPs accessing those images. The gore images were uploaded to another service that at least on the surface appears to be another regular image hoster that wouldn't expose IP access logs to uploaders.
I don't think its baseless given that anyone can set up their own Lemmy instance to host the PM'd images.
The instance domains I've seen involved so far at least weren't set up specifically for this purpose at least. Most of the URLs were pointing to established services and not different per recipient.
While I can't rule out that individual users may have received a different URL in an attempt to extract their IP and information about their browser, this at least does not appear to have been done in a larger scale.
Gore wait wtf where does gore come in, is that if you play along with the ctfish?
A day or two ago, someone spammed out a picture of a murdered body with the standard Fediverse Chick copypasta. That seemed to freak people out; the nicoled community locked down, this thread happened, etc.
The gore photo seems to be a second actor/copycat. The Nicole spammer either came from their own instances or opened accounts very shortly before spamming, the gore photo, and a following anime style picture done in red-on-white saying "Do you like insanity?" seem to come from accounts that were made 2 years ago.
Oh damn. Don't know how I missed that bit of drama. Thanks
I find it difficult to believe there are enough fediverse users not using a VPN at all times to make that effort worthwhile.
most people don't. the only device I have that runs a VPN 24/7 is a laptop that seeds
I use a VPN on everything else if I'm doing something sketchy though
everyone should be more like me :3
yeah that's fair, I probably should use it more but it's just kinda annoying
You know it had not even crossed my mind until this post but on hindsight it makes perfect sense.
It's pretty obvious ...
What's scary is how many people just accepted that some woman wanted to randomly spam thousands of pictures with her smoking weed.
Maybe they're used to onlyfans bots.
That would make since if any of the pictures were selfies and not random screen grabs off a webcam
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Foresight? This has been going on for several months.
I took the comment as sarcasm. lol
You forgot this
/s