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.

      • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 days ago

        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.