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.
less people here. more people on reddit, especially the medical subs, which had a problem with perverts/minors.
Well, you haven’t given me consent! I’m a pervert but you gotta show interest first.
Show us your
boobsbeans!BEANS
Red? Black? Butter? Cannelli? Let me know!
We don’t discriminate, we enjoy.
Even cats paws for the kinky ones…
Garbanzo or be gone-zo!
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
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
I have really only gotten, “Hello”
And obvs our gf hit me up.
Ask and you shall recieve.
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!”
That’s probably the reason, yeah.
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.
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%.
Lemmy + Piefed (+mbin if you want) is something like 38,000 users.
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.
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.
We’re what… 1% of the size of Reddit? Less?
I have no idea but my gut says not even one-thousandth
lemmy users do not socialize
Be the change you want to see in the world!The reason is that only girls are allowed to horny post on Lemmy. And everyone else is confined to https://fedinsfw.app/.
What a lovely day on the Inter…
GOOD LORD
It’s not a request guys.
only girls are allowed to horny post on Lemmy.
Vile-let comes to mind…
Only DMS I get are people arguing with me who know their comments won’t be well received in the public forum lol
Well, one reason is I didn’t know about you until now.
Lmao logic
Ever heard of Nicole?
No, sorry. Who is she ?
At this point, it’s been less than an hour. How many jokers have sent you creepy DMs?
0
I highly considered sending a joke dm. But decided against it cause it made me feel icky.
I was going to send a cat picture with a pussy pun…
I thought the same thing. It’s funny if everyone does it, but if I’m the only one that has the idea, that’s just creepy.
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.
It’s been known to happen. Tho all the cases I have seen of it were mods or admins of questionable instances/comms sending the creepy DMs and those getting posted to the various mod abuse communities.
