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.
Hey bro nice piece you got there. What’s a DM?
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
Ah yes Nicole everyone’s best friend of lemmy
Because we are all reasonable and well adjusted adults here
Some are just more reasonable and more well adjusted then others here
Well, there’s no “Get them help and support” button for starters
LMAO
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
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 !
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 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?
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.
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 !
Oh man you missed out on Nicole the fediverse chick
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 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.
Everyone talk of she, but I’ve never heard anything about her !
We scared her :(
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.
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
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!
Wasn’t there someone that kept spamming the inbox of people (including mine).
Nicole, the Fediverse chick!
I feel so lonely now. RIP
Yeah! That one, hah.
Oh snap, I had forgotten about that.
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
Yeah, I struggle to think of someone on here that I think would have a more radioactive inbox than you
Damn, nobody deserves that. Not even Velma 😛 (/srs, Velma is actually pretty cool but it’s funny to exaggerate)
