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?
Friend, with all due respect, there are some people here who belong in a hospital. Mental illness.
A sizeable chunk of us were banned from Reddit. I’m convinced some of those bans were justified.
We’re the internet’s Australia
That all internet and social media
You will never catch me!
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.
Today sure has one with a tool bag posing anti trans stuff and non tagged nsfw posts.
it looks like you’ve been getting targeted for abuse by a feddit.org admin, saying you’re the same person for upvoting the db0 thread about feddit.org being zionist
Wow… that… I have no words for that. That is beyond despicable. I had a feeling things were bad when I saw the governance thread but that’s way way worse than I thought.
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.
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.
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.
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.
in Fediverse, the trolls are the reporters, blockers, indignant ones…
“oh, you talked with ChatGPT” BLOCK
“oh, you use cryptos” BLOCK
“oh, you said that in left wing there are thieves” BLOCK
“oh, you don’t know what is queer” BLOCK
(they said in from sites hosted in Google Cloud)
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). 🤷♂️
Oh, they’re 10 and learned reddit terms.
I saw it earlier. Also got spammed by an asshole telling me to kill myself. Lemmy is going to shit these days. I’m thinking about going back to Reddit, or digg. At least they don’t have shit like this there. Spam like this gets squashed quickly there. /s
just as an FYI, it looks like you’ve been getting targted for abuse by a feddit.org admin, saying you’re the same person for upvoting the thread about feddit.org being zionist
edit, as the admin in question replied to me and is banned, so I can’t respond otherwise:
@Emopunker@feddit.org, the MeanwhileonGrad comm is a cesspool, you posted there in a thread complaining about your instance getting defederated for its rampant zionism. You used your ability as an admin to view the votes on that thread and complained about users who upvoted the thread.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
They then started getting DM harassment, along with other people who have been vocally anti-zionist lately.
Nobody said it’s literally you doing it, however it is you who are the one fanning the flames.
