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.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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So you have all the limitless time and energy to address this stupid spam post but you can't prevent the rise of authoritarian bots and powermods on lemmy.world?
What is an authoritarian bot?
I guess limitless time and energy would be needed to identify authoritarian bots because it's much harder compared to identifying a person in an image. Should nothing be done because the larger problem can't be solved at the current time?
Harder for you people maybe, to me they stick out like a tooth ache
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.
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.
I don't either want to see story on TV about Internet hacker group "Lenny" destroying woman 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
I got my first one last night. Yay! I'm part of the thing now!
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.
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
might make sense to notify the educational institution she was said to be attending.
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.
Yes. I too feel left out.
I hadn't either. I received one a few weeks ago, after seeing this thread. Still no idea wtf is going on with it. I just deleted it.
I blocked them so many times. There's just always more.
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?
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.
β¦ initiation? Reminds me of that cult who does this to lure people in.
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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.
Not just Lemmy, they followed me on mastodon.
I saw someone on Reddit say that they've seen it on a Discord server as well.
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.
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