DonaldJMusk

Good point!

So I may have a distant and weird connection to the originator of the Nicole spam. No proof, but here's my case.

I had this weird stalker on Lemmy—[email protected] (account’s deleted now, so I think it’s fine to name him). Someone else did some digging and found out he was using a bot army to follow me around and downvote my posts.

While people were investigating that, they noticed something strange: the domains used by his bots matched the original Nicole spam domains.

Then, right after that investigation thread dropped, PapaSkwat suddenly deleted his profile. The same profile that had been active since around the time the Nicole spam started. And he’d been trolling and stalking me for months. One of his comments even admitted he was deliberately poking me to make me "snap.”

There’s this theory that the whole Nicole spam thing might’ve started as revenge. Like, maybe some guy got dumped or rejected, got obsessed, and started blasting her pics everywhere because he couldn’t let it go.

That kinda lines up with my stalker’s behavior. He’d get mad, obsessive, and go out of his way to tell people how awful I was. He even bragged about using alt accounts just to mess with me.

It was bizarre.

So here’s the chain: weird stalker gets outed for running downvote bots → bots are tied to Nicole spam domains → stalker suddenly vanishes → and now Nicole is “dead” (not for real, but metaphorically, like the spam just ends).

Maybe the guy realized the jig was up and decided to kill off the whole Nicole thing too?

I have no clue, no proof other that people's assumptions. It just seems a strange coincidence that my weird stalker guy disappears right after rumblings come up of him being involved in Nicole spam. Then right after he disappears, this dead nicole spam comes up.

Here’s the bot investigation post (2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club): https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

And here's a screenshot where he brags to someone about trying to make me "snap" and another where he brags to me directly about having alt names to stalk me too:

Interesting find.

So seeing this just dissolve under natural circumstances seems like a game changer.

Agreed! I def hope this becomes a common thing now.

I've worked with teachers a lot over last several years. They definitely have to put up with ever-changing rules.

I think just using the name (first name_last name) that the pupil is registered at the school under, is the safe way to go. If the child wants to go by a different name, then the parent can update the registration info. Then teacher can address child by the different name--after student registration has been updated.

Then just say "they" and "person," and drop any he/she boy/girl references. That way everyone is covered regardless of laws, fads, or personal preferences. It's extreme, but it's the way so stay out of any drama.

Before I retired, that's how referred to my co-workers.

Example conversation that I'd have:

Co-worker: "Hey, do you know where Julie is? Did she go to lunch?"

Me: "Not sure. I think they mentioned something about lunch, but I don't know the timing or anything. Call them on the phone I guess?"

No one ever had an issue, or as far as I can tell, even noticed what I was doing. Kept me from having to keep up with preferences or anything.

How would you know that though? You said you blocked me. And since I show up in "all the same comms" should be easy to avoid seeing me.

I post subject-appropriate articles to different communities. I'm helping Lemmy grow. It's a good thing. Please feel free to post whatever you want to. Lemmy needs content.

K, bye!

The neat part is that it doesn’t matter if you think they are misleading, they aren't, and I like them. No matter how mad you are. :)

Funny how it's one of the most popular new sites. I'm sure their feelings and bank account are really hurt that you don't like them.

I’m happy to continue to keep posting their articles, brah. Feel free to start your own community and only post articles you like. Be the change you wanna see. :)

That seems excessive. Being a teacher these days is tough.

Nice bait, brah! But I don't think they're misleading.

Ya seem to like replying to my daily mail articles though, so you're giving conservative communites traffic. Thanks for that!