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I really wish we could disable PMs from anyone but admins or mods of comms we subscribe to, like you can on reddit. There will never be a day when I want to receive a PM from anyone on Lemmy. It's nothing personal, there's lots of cool people here, but I'm not interested in being pen pals. I'm just here for the public forum.
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like E = Mc2, but now itβs E = Mc2 + AI
Aaaaaaaa. Thanks, I hate it. You successfully trolled me.
:(
I also would have accepted E = McHammer
The McHammer is my favourite Happy Meal choice
Just pm'd you asking for more deets.
If we were on Reddit, OP's inbox would get flooded with messages, but Lemmy isn't active enough for that...
Got 4 copies of it, I don't even know how to send a message to "all" here, didn't think it was possible.
The API is pretty open. you can write a script that sends individual messages to however many people you like
Besides all that drama of OP:
Wouldn't that be THE BEST social media community where messages like that would actually happen? I would love to be a part of an open undivisive group of people who would write things like "Hey, I'm Joe, I do this and that and noticed you, lets band if you like" or "I'm jenna, I do the creative work for XY instance, lets connect". That would be really cool. The problem is as always that we can not trust these messages because of the last decade of misuse on various platforms. Even if we take out all the scams, we only accept the right message in the right medium: If someone would write me what OP posted on LinkedIn, I would read it as a business inquire connection (at best). If she would write me that on Tinder&co, I would take it as an avance. If I would get a message like that on facebook, I do not believe in it as a honest request anymore. On Insta I would read it as a scam too. But where is the place where I can get a message like that and trust it as it is the norm in that social network? McLuhan said "The Medium is the Message". We need a Platform/Network/Medium to give a room to actually send a message like that where a connection without the aspect of business or sex is assumed because of the choosen Platform/Network/Medium.
The Fediverse will not solve this problem sadly, as it is mainly just decentralized, but is not out to solve societary tilts and disgraces. But it is nice to think that such a place/site/room could exist (one day?) where a person (even of another gender) could have an exchange like that without bad intentions. As usally, The good ones are silent, and the loud ones are scams.
The loneliness epidemic in a nutshell: we feel we can't trust people being open and friendly.
That isn't normal, by the way.
The problem isn't that we feel we can't trust them. It's that we actually can't trust them. Trusting someone that messages you that way is likely to end up with you in a bathtub full of ice, or at the very least, a compromised bank account.
Most people are open and friendly but you have to meet them in real life.
I signed up for dinner with strangers thing, meeting five random strangers I didn't know before. Every single one was friendly and open about their lives.
We all need to be very careful not to think social media is real life. Outside of all this, most people are decent, specially when a bit older.
Yay I feel loved, just got my one of these!
I got it to. Did they send it to everyone? And exactly how would you do that?
I got it too!
Same
Take all my money, random dude on the web.
Even weirder, a user named "sognar" was posting their picture as a comment.
Seemed odd to me... Comment is removed now.
Oh so that's why, I reverse searched the image earlier and it linked to that post. Looks like there is another image on that profile now
okay lol i feel less bad for reporting this user now that i know it was widespread
As a mod in other coomunities, please report these as quickly as you can. They can generally be taken care of quickly.
I didn't even know pms were a thing mbin until I got that one earlier. No pic on mine, but might be a cross-compatability issue or already the link died
Got thar same message. Basic policy: ignore.
I also just got it.
I, too, was approached by Missy/Nicole.
Thanks for the heads up! I never PM anyone on social media platforms unless Iβve met them in real life and they expressed actual openness to talking to me.
