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.
A year or two ago, I had some lunatic threaten to kill my mother in my DMs, does that count?
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.
I got a message once, a stranger asking me how I’m doing. Didn’t bother replying and the account has been inactive ever since.
I forgot you could dm people.
I got some! Even a dick pick. Was a good one so wasn’t even too mad
Oh ok
Wasn’t there someone that kept spamming the inbox of people (including mine).
Oh snap, I had forgotten about that.
Nicole, the Fediverse chick!
I feel so lonely now. RIP
Yeah! That one, hah.
I recall some users get threatening / doxxing messages, but the admins shut that down pretty fast. I think that qualifies as creepy.
The other week I saw someone publically replying to Velma that they know who she is and where she lives in a “not threatening” threatening way, which was pretty fucked up.
To get these messages, you need to severely irritate a special kind of user. I most often see it as a result of having escalating political arguments.
Yeah I definitely get some…interesting DMs and comments aimed at me. Being an outspoken woman will ruffle some feathers haha
Damn, nobody deserves that. Not even Velma 😛 (/srs, Velma is actually pretty cool but it’s funny to exaggerate)
Well, you haven’t given me consent! I’m a pervert but you gotta show interest first.
Oh no 😱
Tho, you’re probably too inundated atm for me to chip in with lustful words. Hope your day goes well!
Oh man you missed out on Nicole the fediverse chick
Everyone talk of she, but I’ve never heard anything about her !
We scared her :(
Omg I forgot about her!
Same! For good reason, too.
I still hold the fact that she contacted me as a badge of honor
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 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 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.
Only DMS I get are people arguing with me who know their comments won’t be well received in the public forum lol
At this point, it’s been less than an hour. How many jokers have sent you creepy DMs?
0
Ever heard of Nicole?
No, sorry. Who is she ?
In spring 2025 there was lots of spam featuring picture of a woman and some text “Hey, I am Nicole, but you can call me the fediverse chick”. Those messages went into people’s DMs if I recall correctly. It was downright relentless wave of spam and as an instance admin I had to handle at least 30 reports a day at one point. Those messages could also feature spam links and even gore. Wild theories about who Nicole really is and where the spam originates started popping up. There was even speculation that this could be related to a murder.
Thankfully all that spam later fizzled out, and it drove development of Lemmy’s moderation features.
OH ! Okay. What an weird lore !
I have really only gotten, “Hello”
And obvs our gf hit me up.
Ask and you shall recieve.
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.
