I got a quadruple today.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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Hi, I'm Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D
For when you or others get nicoled.
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Imagine the poor girl's costs at the photo booth.
That sounds like a great business idea. A photo booth where you pay for having your face spammed all over the internet.
Double Nicole, all the way!
It's almost starting to look like a triple Nicole...
"just" manual approve like they don't do anything except moderate lemmy all day
Forgive me, English is not my native language.
I'm not saying that they don't do anything, or they don't have a regular daytime job, or that I don't appreciate a good discussion space.
I'm just saying that chick spammers create accounts easily, if you let open registrations without manual approval.
It's just a bit of dm spam. Hardly the end of the world. I haven't even gotten these messages anyway.
This doesn't scale at all. Also, it won't work, because in order to be identified as a spammer, you need to be caught spamming first, which will only happen after the account has been activated AKA approved.
Even if it worked, the spammers would just resort to running their own instance(s), which would then have to be met with similar measures regarding defederating these instances, which would simply shift the problem to manually controlling which instance to federate with every time a new instance tries to federate, which will scale equally well.
as another software's admin I'm just asking if account creation on those lemmy servers can be scripted/automated, without having a human interaction first.
This is an admin choice.
If not then well, let a robot create new account on every registration free server he could find on internet, all called nicole$number, with the same image and bio, and prepare to pass the time to ban them forever.
Strange there are no other 10 yet around
Another question I have is...I started getting DMs from a 3-day old account with no other activity. Surely it wasn't just targeting me, it was blasting DMs out everywhere. That kind of thing should be fairly easy to check for.