i didn't count it but i suspect this happened 10+ times now.
what do we do against this?
The photos are getting increasingly more random don't you think
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I suspect someone’s laptop was hacked and they have access to her camera.
I read somewhere that it's a peertube streamer
I reckon it's a streamer
Hi, I'm Nicole! holds up spork But u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!
I'm a 29 y/o Polish girl (I'm mature 4 my age tho!!!!!)
what do we do against this?
Once again: I want to be able to turn off people's ability to PM me. Checks for "accepting PMs" doesn't even have to be in the codebase for every type of fediverse server code; but each instance that decided against PMs, they could check incoming messages vs the recipient and, if rejected, simply send back a message saying "This user is not accepting PMs."
I think this is the answer.
At best this is spam, at worst lemmy is being used to harass this person.
Not knowing anything about the lemmy codebase, I also suspect it would be the easiest solution to implement.
maybe a setting to only allow DMs from people that you have interacted with before (upvote, comment).
I'd love to be able to disable PMs. No one has any reason to PM me on Lemmy as far as I'm concerned.
There is nothing that can be done at the moment, other than joining an instance that does not federate with new instances by default.
Can’t wait until lemmy is big and there’s hundreds / thousands of spammers
my suggestion is to identify
- which instances are used for these spam accounts
- which IP addresses are used for these spam accounts
For getting the IP you'd need the cooperation of the - afaik mostly were small - instances.
Identifying is a lost cause. She changes to common instances all the time, so we aren't going to defederate because of that.
IP address may or may not be possible, but iirc she changes it using residential proxies.
Best course of action is regex and disabling images in DMs.
which instances are used for these spam accounts
is.hardlywork.ing? probably more.
which IP addresses are used for these spam accounts
There is a high probability that the spammer is using a VPN.
Has anyone tried engaging in discord or matrix, as requested?
I have tried engaging in Matrix. I think I managed to convince the spammer to add a Monero wallet, lol.
Clearly add her on friendica
Get her a boyfriend?
Is that a bong?
Not, is a juice box.
It happened to me when I made a post in showerthoughts (which was removed lol for being political). I was getting 1-2 Nicole messages per day. After my post was removed I stopped receiving them. It must go through certain communities and message recent posters. Before that, I had never received a Nicole message. It probably ignores comments. Idk.
Edit: my post on showerthoughts was up for a few days.
I got my first Nicole after I replied to someone on lemmyshitpost so I think you're on to something.