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.

  • Gonzako@lemmy.world
    2·
    34 minutes ago

    Well, you haven’t given me consent! I’m a pervert but you gotta show interest first.

    • Maiq@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      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”.

        • Maiq@piefed.zipEnglish
          6·
          2 hours ago

          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.

      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
        14·
        7 hours ago

        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

      • shweddy@lemmy.world
        201·
        8 hours ago

        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

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 hours ago

      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.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
    37·
    9 hours ago

    Lemmy is SO so so so much smaller. They have to be real desperate to try here, especially when reddit is a thing that exists. Everybody say, “thank you, reddit!”

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      10·
      8 hours ago

      We’re what… 1% of the size of Reddit? Less? (Lemmy+Piefed, not the whole Fediverse). To set up custom APIs and annoyances for what would probably be almost insta-banned doesn’t seem worth it compared to Reddit who will happily allow you to send to near everyone. Hell a basic NSFW subreddit is probably magnitudes larger than all of us.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Much, much less. Reddit has some fraction of a billion active users, going by it’s status as one of the big world platforms, while we have some fraction of 10,000, so more like 0.001%.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Lemmy + Piefed (+mbin if you want) is something like 38,000 users.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Users in general, or active users? Reddit probably has tens of billions of inactive accounts.

            If it is active users, and Lemmy-Piefed is suddenly growing, that’s great, though.

            • Dave@lemmy.nz
              3·
              3 hours ago

              That’s “monthly active users”. Though a bit different from how reddit counts their MAU as Lemmy can’t report on logged out users (since that info isn’t collected or shared between instances) and doesn’t report on users logged in but not interacting (you must vote, comment, or post within the last month to count).

              The fediverse is growing but slowly, and is nowhere near the peak of 3 years ago. But no one expected it to stay.

              If you check the Lemmy history you’ll find it very slowly losing users, but piefed is gaining users faster than Lemmy is losing them.

              Unfortunately fediverse.observer shut down recently so it’s hard to find the past stats these days.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        1·
        4 hours ago

        We’re what… 1% of the size of Reddit? Less?

        I have no idea but my gut says not even one-thousandth

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    8 hours ago

    This is not reddit. No one wants it to be either. You should let that go and stop trying to make this place like reddit.