Submitted 1 week ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://feddit.org/post/10515288
Just a heads up to those who host. Piefed has been doing some work to keep the sanity of their admins. I’m thinking of removing dms from my instances just because of all this.
That’s pretty rough. I hope Lemmy webclient and app developers will make some changes to the way images are handled in DMs based on these events. Just don’t load images in DMs until you click a button or something.
They already did, in 0.19.11
Thanks for the headsup. That makes my notification icon feel a lot less risky to click 😅
Though it’s client-specific and nobody uses lemmy-ui
I first learned about “Nicole” when I received this message through the contact form on PeerTube.wtf
Image peertube.wtf/c/beyorkisan/videos
The person would setup live streams on PeerTube, showing the same clip on a loop, of the supposedly “Nicole”.
I recognise the name Beyorkisan. Is that from the Nicole spam Matrix?
And this is why it is especially important that instances upgrade to 0.19.11 ASAP since that version both offers DM removal when banning users with content removal, and also hides images from being rendered in DMs. Unfortunately a vast majority of instances are on 0.19.9 or earlier.
I’m strongly in favor of removing DMs on all platforms and asking users to add direct contact info to their user profiles. Email, chat apps, whatever.
Fuck that; I don’t want to give out any more personal info than I have to. Lemmy just needs to implement a functional spam filter.
Remove PMs, and comment threads will just be clogged with people having one on one conversations. There’s gotta be a better way.
I don’t want to give out any more personal info than I have to
You don’t have to.
comment threads will just be clogged with people having one on one conversations.
I don’t see that happening, personally.
Yeah if someone needs to reach me via mastodon/lemmy/etc…they can take their time to use other platforms. DMs without any spam detection is a recipe for disaster. As is the case for any messaging in the last 30 years.
@Ulrich Yeah, but then you'll have normies complain like where are the DMs? where are the DMs?
Just like it was on Mastodon where DMs were actually a thing, but were not something so straightforward (usually just create a regular post with only the person that you wanted to talk with tagged in there).
The enshitification is so damn real.
This is why I never check my DMs. 99% of the time they’re just used to harass and threaten people.
Would threatening with a good time be counted as a threat or harassment? 🤔
Go to your local precinct and threaten the officers with a good time and let us know how they react.
That post and this provides zero info
oh jfc
i hope this is all some sick game… what a weird ride
Thus begins the Nicpocalypse, the last stage of inquisitional censorship before botspam ascends into a state of divine memedom. In doing so, Nicole joins the first progenitor of the Dark Meme pantheon in his eternal dance across the interwebs, a handmaiden to his horrid everpresent jiggle…
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Man…I got annoyed at the Nicole stuff. But I always figured whoever it was, it wasn’t her. I figured she was just some adult webcam “actress” that doesn’t even know Lemmy exists. And someone was using her image to do this.
Now she’s dead? How do we confirm this? Do we call the Toronto police? What would we even tell them?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 week ago
We don’t know if it’s actually her in the image. While the likeness is similar, it’s not 1:1 and the injuries make it even harder to tell.
Police, sure, but it probably needs to come from instance admins who will have all of the information on the bots sending the image.
Actionschnils@feddit.org 1 week ago
Oh wow. I already didnt get the “joke” with her(?) spamming. It seemed a little sleazy to me making fun of her in any way. But now with gore pictures? Disgusting.
Hopefully its just fake and the person is in good health. If there is a possibility of the pictures beeing real, I would recommend contacting the locals authorities too.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It could be photoshopped.