I can kinda see it happening on mainstream internet, on YouTube etc. with witless non-nerds but I’m surprised to see it in places that inherently require one to be a tiny bit internet savvy, like Lemmy. I get that getting a bot spam the same message isn’t exactly resource intensive but i still wonder if the cost-effort-return ratio is worth it.
I was scrolling Lemmy earlier and saw the porn Spam. Fucking disgusting, and then for some reason I got more than 100 DMs telling me to kill myself. I don’t know if that counts but this is really not what I signed up for when joining Lemmy. I just want to scroll and see funny memes, maybe hear about or learn interesting stuff.
You gotta block what you don’t wanna see or choose an instance that has similar values to you as they’ll be defederated from a lot of shit you don’t wanna see.
It’s been a while but I would do it via tor so the JS wouldn’t fire and it usually would throw an error saying hackers have your PC or we have seen errors and run this tool to fix it.
My bad, I probably should’ve clarified that I meant clicking on it thinking that there’s a respectable porn site on the other end lol but I actually don’t recall ever clicking them, even by accident, so fun to hear there isn’t anything more sophisticated there than just “hey, download this totally not suspicious .exe”. Have you ever tried running those tools on a secure computer?
Gods no. With sandbox escapes and VM detection it too easy to let it wild even with no nic attached.
My father in law.
Yeah. I entered a lifestyle beyond my wildest dreams
