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.
everyone’s too busy screaming at each other over their speculation on the titles of posts
Fewer people. Give it time, they always show up eventually, like cockroaches.
I just found out about DMs a few days ago and I think that its awesome, anyone want to chat? Any creepy woman on here?
No.
Relatable
Honestly, no fucking clue. I’ve gotten some weird dms when I was posting nudes on reddit. Meanwhile here the only DMs I’ve had have been respectful
Well, and Nicole of course
Well, there’s no “Get them help and support” button for starters
LMAO
Because we are all reasonable and well adjusted adults here
Some are just more reasonable and more well adjusted then others here
Well… We’re adjusted at least.
I actually had this person approach me and emphasize about stuff, getting to dm. Then at some point moving over to a messenger.
At some point he/she just vanished and all communication was deleted as far as I could see.
I think it might’ve been social engineering and scam but being aware I never gave away more than I would more or less publicly anyway. That might have been the reason for giving up.
I never received creepy DMs on Reddit. Most I got was death threats from the odd transphobe/racist when I was moderating r/NoahGetTheBoat.
Same here. Bots offering drugs is all I ever got. Male though
That counts !
Maybe haven’t been here long enough? I got a few when I was more active a couple years ago. It’s creepy to get a DM at all, tbh.
You want us to send you creepy, unsolicited, dick pics? Odd hobby, but okay.
😂
Oh you like that?
No
He may not be enough Dick for ya, so here’s another
Dickbutt Cuss!!
theres the fediverse chick.
RIP Nicole
I forgot you could dm people.
I don’t think I’ve ever had something I wanted to tell someone here that needed to be in private.
Links to streaming sites.
ew. Just torrent.
Why would I torrent live sports?
A year or two ago, I had some lunatic threaten to kill my mother in my DMs, does that count?
Yeah ! Ohncool, it’s like Reddit ! I’m like home !
I tried DMing back and forth with someone on here. They dropped the conversation after sporadically replying for a bit. Lemmy just isn’t set up for simple DMing yet, or at least the UI in Voyager isn’t.
EDIT: I should say not in a creepy way! Just illustrating that even friendly conversation is hard to access on Lemmy.
Quick question does DMing with pictures work? i thought it was text and links only.
Hey fellow Voyager user! I’ve been waiting forever for someone to mention Voyager because I use it too and I have a question. HOW TO MAKE A POST?? I apparently figured out how to do it once a long time ago, but I can’t fucking figure it out again AND I NEED A QUICK TUTORIAL PLEASE.
Yeah, though I think also the sorts of folks on here are also just bad at keeping dms going
Fuck, I have several people I need to text soonish
OK
Oh man you missed out on Nicole the fediverse chick
Oh yeah! I think that was the only DM I ever got on Lemmy.
Omg I forgot about her!
Same! For good reason, too.
I still hold the fact that she contacted me as a badge of honor
Me too! I still have her dm
WHO IS SHE 😭
Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical “Hi I’m Nicole, lets chat” type of message. At first people were sharing the dm’s to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar “webcam” style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.
Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).
Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.
Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.
Thank you for explanations ! This sounds like a creepypasta lol.
Nah, more like regular old shitty spam using someone’s photo without permission
Agreed
I got DMs from “her” also. A while back there was someone who would send pictures of herself (not graphic in any way) and try to initiate conversations… Lots of them. I forgot what the pretext was and also the intent, but “she” had to go. You don’t want to be like “her.”
“Nicole” creepypasta lol.
i don’t think we never knew if it was her or someone else using her pictures pretending to be her
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
“You voted, we listened! Smormu will be the 5th member of the Smiling Friends!”
I hate when my hunches reach across the aisle
Democracy
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
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.
Im so curious but I’ll respect the conventions and not ask.
I’m ok with that.
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.
Everyone talk of she, but I’ve never heard anything about her !
We scared her :(
I erased that dm from my memory. I had to check, i had dms from Nicole and missy29
