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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[–] 37 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

Friend, with all due respect, there are some people here who belong in a hospital. Mental illness.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That all internet and social media

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    yeah I think that is a big thing people have to keep in mind with the internet. I try my best to love you all but I don't make decisions with what I "learn" from hanging it out internet spaces. I sometimes laugh at myself when I get to upset by something.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Today sure has one with a tool bag posing anti trans stuff and non tagged nsfw posts.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Nothing since Nicole for me.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago

    Not seeing it out here in the .world instance, but then again I'm not engaging with trans, autism, or furry communities as much as I think that you are. Sounds as though you've caught a homophobe troll's attention, owing to the KYS & astroturfing DM, and false reporting. Bounce this upstairs to your instance's mods, and let others know who they are.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I only had a DM once but never happened again,, maybe a troll targeted you? The dm, btw

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Im not sure about the porn spam, but the abusive dm is probably from the Feddit.org admin acussing you of being an astrosurfer https://lemmy.zip/post/58901499/24578452 @Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you have a bit of time, please collect evidence of when that targeting and harassment happens. I've already seen a few accounts using low-quality /c/MoG posts to try and demonize .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear so it's useful to have a post or posts to point to showing that it's a harassment circlejerk, not the credible spectators they pretend to be.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I think this may depend on the instance you're on. The "trans" spam bot hit up my sister's account but she's on fedia/mbin. I haven't noticed the other abuses per se to be like. Rampant or anything.

    But I also don't check DM's.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Going through all the reports is a pain in the ass today.

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

    No. I blocked all the anime, furry, porn, and any aggressive subs that consistently read like screaming. If that matters, maybe do the same.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Nope, haven't noticed. I do see a lot of spam removed whenever I look at the mod log though. Some level of spam is always to be expected.

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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Not spam per se, but there does seem to be a sharp uptick in brand new accounts making tons of posts and getting banned. It seems every day I see numerous posts made by users that are already banned by whatever community they posted in (by the time I see them.) Mods must be working overtime.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It happens. A very highly intelligent user will occasionally post something in a lot of communities and gets a rise out of downvotes, annoyed comments, and blocks. It's annoying but that is often the nature of the internet. Report, block, and move on.

    It's only the very highly intelligent users who do this. So it doesn't happen a lot.

    Don't engage with anybody you don't know well on DMs. And if some other very highly intelligent person goes to the effort of sending you abuse via DM, take pride that you really got under their skin. Ignore it if you can.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I’ve been here for a couple of years now and have never gotten anything like that. I even occasionally ban people (which I can’t imagine they are too happy about). 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Seen two spam comments today.

    I have everything sorted by new though and they were gone shortly after reporting.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Oh, they're 10 and learned reddit terms.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    No but maybe you tell me where all this porn spam is active so I can stay away from it.

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