this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Nicole [LOCKED]

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Due to recent developments, we've had to lock down this community until further notice. For more information, please take a look at this post: https://feddit.org/post/10515288

Thank you for your understanding.

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What happened?

Due to the recent developments, I have decided to make this community moderator-only. There has been a mass spam attack involving gore and nudity. This is now a very serious situation and it is clear that something has to be done to stop this from happening. The new messages might be from a different, psychopathic spammer.

What we decided to do about it

To have better control of this situation, we decided to lock down the community, except for the comment section on this very post. (Please let me know if I've missed a post)

Rules

  • Please refrain to further spread the newest spam image, especially uncensored versions of it.
  • The "It's my girlfriend!"-joke is long gone. Be respectful, stop using it.

Going forward

Our main goal now is to stop the spread of spam on Lemmy. This seems like a major problem in Lemmy's concept, so we need to work together to create a working solution to the spam and potential defacing of users.

Update: The source of the gore images has been identified, so it's safe to say it's not actually the same person as "Nicole". Still fucked up, though.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (23 children)

The way lemmy is designed this will just happen again and again.

We don't need messaging features, it shouldn't be possible to DM users

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

At least you don't have to have three page long threads. And if you don't understand the context or want a help with something, then use DMs.

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[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. That was an absolutely awful way to start my day. Glad to see it's being taken seriously

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

In my case, it's a awful way to end the day.

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yikes, the fun is over now. This has escalated too much.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 5 points 5 days ago

The end of an era

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 8 points 6 days ago

Thank you. This is a smart move.
I enjoyed it while it was enjoyable.

[–] RickSorkin@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t this what they would want?

[–] FQQD@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Maybe - but I, and a big part of the members of this community don't see how this should continue otherwise

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