I haven’t gotten her spam, nor heard her talked about in a while. Did she finally get banned?
She and I started dating, and she's had a lot less time for making Fediverse friends since starting her new job.
What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick?
Submitted 19 hours ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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AmidFuror@fedia.io 19 hours ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Dozens of those accounts got banned. Whoever was behind them seems to have given up.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Started pondering an orb while wearing jeans and eating beans… and just never stopped.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 19 hours ago
JORB!
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Nicole content was banned on LW.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 19 hours ago
It wasn’t the actual person. It was some lunatic who had harassed the person used to spam.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago
Gone. Reduced to atoms.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
And her wife? To shreds you say?
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Perhaps the spammer got tired and many admins stepped up their game. As an instance admin I remember having to remove helluva many posts featuring Nicole. Hopefully anything like that will not happen again for a long time.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Dunno, i blocked everything and they never appeared again
Limonene@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Maybe it was a phishing scheme to identify people’s IP addresses based on where they loaded the image from. In that case, each person would only receive one message. Fortunately I use a proxy, so they got nothing.
LemUrun@pawb.social 19 hours ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 hours ago
A copycat spammer started sending gore pictures to people using the same Nicole copypasta text. A lot of people got upset and there was a flurry of discussion over like a 24h period. Some people seemed to think it was a serial killer and Nicole had been doxxed and killed. In reality if I recall right the picture was from a morgue somewhere in China.
Anyway the whole thing led to a general “okay maybe the joke has run its course and we shouldn’t encourage this” type of moment and the sub was shut down. Presumably the spammer stopped spamming once they no longer received attention, but maybe the admins found and IP banned them or something. I have no idea.
Triumph@fedia.io 18 hours ago
"The" admins? All that spam was coming from new accounts made at instances with little oversight.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 18 hours ago
It was probably poorly phrased but I feel like I remember there was a group of various instance admins at the time discussing ways to deal with it, so it was more of a reference to maybe they figured something out.
You’re right that they used tiny instances with no oversight and open registrations to ban evade for a long time even before this debacle when it was just normal Nicole spam.