Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance's communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

Has anyone else experienced anything like that lately or is it just me?

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[+] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My legit accounts are as follows:

    Yes I know this is excessive and I created many of them either when I was less sure of the Fediverse or because I wanted some activity separation in who I follow or communities I'm part of. And also because of Federation issues as well. I also was kind of hoping Lemmy would have something in the future where accounts like this can be merged into a single nomadic account. I had heard of something like that but I can't find it now :/

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  • [+] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I created it a while back because I thought having the username occupied would prevent this sort of thing from happening. I was more naive back then and didn't think someone would be pathetic enough to use misspellings and lookalikes to get around that 😔.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.

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