Got spam today from someone trying to tap this new market and create a following.

Please don’t encourage them. If it catches on it will be terrible. Don’t let them destroy this for us.

  • @[email protected]
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    7116 hours ago

    From “Nicole?”

    This is someone that keeps creating new alts and spamming everyone with PMs. Someone noticed on a previous iteration where they posted a separate photo (of a buttplug) that the reflection in the photo was of an old, bald white guy. After being called out they immediately deleted the photo.

    I don’t think it’s an influencer. I think it’s just a plain old scammer.

    • @whalerossOP
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      2415 hours ago

      Yeah, “Fediverse Girl”. Most lazy alias ever.

    • sixty
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      1414 hours ago

      I’m left out of the Nicole club 😔

    • InfiniteGlitch
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      915 hours ago

      Yeah, I got that one too. I just immediately blocked the account and gave it no thought.

      • teft
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        312 hours ago

        This is the way. My block list is very long since i block anything like that. Also bigots. So many bigots.

  • @taiyang
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    2213 hours ago

    We already have our local celebrities, anyway. And what good does it do them? Beans.

  • @Supervisor194
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    As long as no Fed instance attempts to monetize content, these people will have no power. So subscribe to them, engage to them all you want, but absolutely shun any Fed instance that does anything but accept donations to keep the lights on. Money will always enshittify platforms and their content. Always.

    Edit: FYI, any real people who want to discuss things with me, don’t let your post sound like it came from a rage engagement bot.

    • alcoholic_chipmunk
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      13 hours ago

      shun any Fed instance that does anything but accept donations to keep the lights on.

      Please enlighten us on why everyone should give you everything for free?

      Honestly aren’t we mostly in this mess because no-one will pay for a subscription so we’re stuck with shitty advertising as the only way to keep the lights on for most platforms?

  • @Sho
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    1316 hours ago

    I agree, they have everywhere else it go online to push their BS.

  • @SnowMeowXP
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    716 hours ago

    I just blocked “her”, whoever that spammer claims to be.

  • @[email protected]
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    616 hours ago

    oi, hitting the critical mass of enough users to be interesting, but thankfully not at enough users where it is profitable for them yet. sigh

  • @shaggyb
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    -515 hours ago

    Ugh it’s like when Hank Green joined Bluesky and then immediately started tone policing and now all his videos are about how he’s a fragile little sad boy.

    Stay in your fucking lane, YouTubers.

    • erin (she/her)
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      12 hours ago

      This doesn’t pass the smell test, as someone that has followed the Greens for years. If you thought his actions were “tone policing” then I’m immediately questioning your actions, since all I’ve seen is a standup guy and educator. I’m happy to be corrected with a link, but I’m not seeing what you’re talking about.

    • @[email protected]
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      1015 hours ago

      I’m familiar with Hank Green, but I don’t actually follow him or have a bluesky account. Can you provide a link to an example or an explanation of what you mean?

      • @shaggyb
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        -2314 hours ago

        Sorry, I have stuff to do today. You’re just as capable of looking him up.

        • @Zomg
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          2214 hours ago

          Yeah, except what you consider as tone policing and someone else is completely different. This smells like you don’t want to stand up to your claim.

          • @[email protected]
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            1214 hours ago

            I didn’t mention it in my original comment, but I did actually do a search, and the only thing I found was him talking about how bluesky is better because it doesn’t do suppression of external links. Bluesky itself does not load with my current settings so I can’t scroll through his posts, but his recent YouTube videos seem pretty normal/benign from just the titles. Seems weird to unnecessarily attack Hank Green, but I am gonna guess that’s what they’re doing because I cannot find example or article him being problematic.