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What's June got to do with it?
Besides all that drama of OP:
Wouldn't that be THE BEST social media community where messages like that would actually happen? I would love to be a part of an open undivisive group of people who would write things like "Hey, I'm Joe, I do this and that and noticed you, lets band if you like" or "I'm jenna, I do the creative work for XY instance, lets connect". That would be really cool. The problem is as always that we can not trust these messages because of the last decade of misuse on various platforms. Even if we take out all the scams, we only accept the right message in the right medium: If someone would write me what OP posted on LinkedIn, I would read it as a business inquire connection (at best). If she would write me that on Tinder&co, I would take it as an avance. If I would get a message like that on facebook, I do not believe in it as a honest request anymore. On Insta I would read it as a scam too. But where is the place where I can get a message like that and trust it as it is the norm in that social network? McLuhan said "The Medium is the Message". We need a Platform/Network/Medium to give a room to actually send a message like that where a connection without the aspect of business or sex is assumed because of the choosen Platform/Network/Medium.
The Fediverse will not solve this problem sadly, as it is mainly just decentralized, but is not out to solve societary tilts and disgraces. But it is nice to think that such a place/site/room could exist (one day?) where a person (even of another gender) could have an exchange like that without bad intentions. As usally, The good ones are silent, and the loud ones are scams.
The loneliness epidemic in a nutshell: we feel we can't trust people being open and friendly.
That isn't normal, by the way.
Most people are open and friendly but you have to meet them in real life.
I signed up for dinner with strangers thing, meeting five random strangers I didn't know before. Every single one was friendly and open about their lives.
We all need to be very careful not to think social media is real life. Outside of all this, most people are decent, specially when a bit older.
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Thatβs basically how people introduced themselves on the public discord servers I frequented during the pandemic and it was normal
I don't know what drama you think op is introducing
Mastadon is this way for me
No, that's not a thing I would want to be involved with.
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Take all my money, random dude on the web.
I thought maybe it vas a weird quirk of friendica, but yeah this seems more focused
I've been getting a different one for awhile trying to rope me into a crypto scam
I also just got it.
I got it too. Looks like maybe they were banned because it disappeared from my inbox
I didn't even know pms were a thing mbin until I got that one earlier. No pic on mine, but might be a cross-compatability issue or already the link died
Even weirder, a user named "sognar" was posting their picture as a comment.
Seemed odd to me... Comment is removed now.
Probably the bot owner setting it up and doing a test post?
Created the same day so seems likely.
Also, the spammer linked above is now banned.
Interestingly there is a reddit user named Korvin-lin-sognar, who posts lots of pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine, pro-Trump, etc. you name it content on reddit and twitter.
They are also in IT with strong webdev skills, and possibly have an exemption from conscription for working more than a year in a Russian IT company(or are angry it doesn't apply to them?)
Just saying if I was a Russian foreign agent (or troll) trying to use bots to fish and setup a troll farm on lemmy/Fediverse, I'd probably look a like like this netizen.
Edit: I've now been messaged by the sognar account as well as the original missy29. Interesting that the message has changed to include links now. Did anyone else get contacted by sognar?
Yep!
Here's round two for me:
My first message from missy also had links, didn't think to screenshot it, definitely did not click on them, but I think they at least looked the same...
I did, and it's still there. I isolated the png because it was obviously a suspicious message and realized what they were doing, and wasn't sure if viewing anything without caution might be a problem.
I've had a few messages in the past, general greetings out of the blue, but not with this much "bait". I still haven't figured out how to delete a PM in Mbin (there are no options anywhere that I see), so there they sit.
Long press to bring up options? That works for me in Boost to report PMs.
Can't do a long press on desktop. :/ For what it's worth, you posted that both got banned, but they still show in my messages, so it seems pretty permanent. Maybe I'll look around at Mbin's dev and see if it's a known bug...I mean, feature.
Might be a federation issue too. The missy29 message in my inbox was removed, but my reply is still there.
True, when it's behaving I forget that there is some propagation still going on. Nevertheless, it doesn't answer the lack of any delete options. I've scanned through the main Mbin github, but don't see anything that matches. Maybe people don't look for it normally. :)
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Oh so that's why, I reverse searched the image earlier and it linked to that post. Looks like there is another image on that profile now
Ayyy we're.....winning?
Yeah this was the first thing that i saw in the morning and it was so surreal. I literally woke up, grabbed my smartphone, went to lemmy inbox, and saw this message three times in a row. Clicked through all of them, then fell back to sleep, only to wake up an hour ago and now i see this meme. I guess i wasn't dreaming this up after all.
Got thar same message. Basic policy: ignore.
who is the woman in the picture? I saw a couple stills randomly posted in comments too.
Maybe those who got spammed have something in common? There's no complete list of users on Fediverse, but it could've targeted a list of users it have seen somewhere, or like community admins, or whatever. I haven't been spammed although I have a fairly active acc.
I got one from her/it yesterday evening. Also a few days before that I got a creepy DM from some rightwinger trying to convince me that there not a fascist Nazi presence and that "people don't even know what those things are as they haven't lived through them".
Never got a DM before that. My guess is lemmy is big enough or rather left enough for federal intervention and psyops are starting if they haven't already.
I think that's pretty good, we're reaching the big leagues π π₯³
I, too, was approached by Missy/Nicole.
i posted this in my instances meta community, im not sure if defederating is the best option, but it sets a warning.