At this point, it’s become a bit meme on Reddit to share the creepy or disgusting DMs you receive. However, nothing like that has happened to me here yet, even though I’ve been active for the equivalent of three or four of those pervy chat invitations on Reddit. I’m no less active here.
Oh man you missed out on Nicole the fediverse chick
Everyone talk of she, but I’ve never heard anything about her !
That was some fucked up snuff ending. I often think about that time in lemmy history, really try not to bring her up and refer to her as “she who must not be named”.
I remember “her” but I don’t recall the ending. To me it just kinda went away with a blip.
Not gonna say much besides it was grim. Then lemmy instances joined together and banned the user, whoever it was and started blocking the image. Soon after there seemed to be a general consensus across the board to stop talking about her/them. To stop feeding whatever they were doing. And the fediverse moved on.
I’m ok with that.
Omg I forgot about her!
Same! For good reason, too.
I still hold the fact that she contacted me as a badge of honor
WHO IS SHE 😭
I got DMs from “her” also. A while back there was someone who would send pictures of herself (not graphic in any way) and try to initiate conversations… Lots of them. I forgot what the pretext was and also the intent, but “she” had to go. You don’t want to be like “her.”
i don’t think we never knew if it was her or someone else using her pictures pretending to be her
I actually dug into her (I was bored) and ended up finding her. The photo was really old but she seems to be doing well. Idk what the point of the message spam was though or why they’d use her picture
I’m 51% sure it was spam/malware. I feel like I recall reading something that said something along the lines of they were sending messages out so that when the picture loaded they’d get location/ip data of the users who opened the message
I like that your hunch barely secured a majority
I hate when my hunches reach across the aisle
Democracy
I got messages from that account, but none of them were creepy, disgusting, or pervy. They seemed like a social experiment or some such.
I didn’t reply though. Maybe people who interacted with the account got something more explicit.
Towards the end they started to involve gore. I got one with a photo of a corpse and the Nicole copypasta.
I erased that dm from my memory. I had to check, i had dms from Nicole and missy29