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Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn't there been a comparable drop in users and comments?

Edit: Thanks to @[email protected] here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can't prove otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from "her" accounts ?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only photos and written info that could identify her. The spam accounts probably get banned as they reported. I don’t know of any posts made by any account claiming to be her?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tnx for the info , i meant the repost bots by "her"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Repost bots? Do you have an example, either by way of link or screenshot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, not rly , i just hear about it from other people getting messages/seeing posts but i never recieved any

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The spam DMs are real, but I think the “reposts” are scuttlebutt based on people not understanding the screenshots of the DMs that they’ve seen in their feed