I can kinda see it happening on mainstream internet, on YouTube etc. with witless non-nerds but I'm surprised to see it in places that inherently require one to be a tiny bit internet savvy, like Lemmy. I get that getting a bot spam the same message isn't exactly resource intensive but i still wonder if the cost-effort-return ratio is worth it.

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I was scrolling Lemmy earlier and saw the porn Spam. Fucking disgusting, and then for some reason I got more than 100 DMs telling me to kill myself. I don't know if that counts but this is really not what I signed up for when joining Lemmy. I just want to scroll and see funny memes, maybe hear about or learn interesting stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    did see the dickpic shit, due to not much auto moderation there are quite a few of those...

    the DM thing is weird, i never got any.. (other than the nicole spam) perhaps you triggered some weird person :/

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You see ads? Have you tried ublockorigin?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It wasn't an ad, it was a disgusting spam user spamming pictures of their penis everywhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Oh, huh, weird, misunderstood you some how. When on the all posts there are a lot of porn related ones, they aren't hardly worth clicking on, if I want porn I can go to the porn video sites, more there than you can shake a stick at. Yeah I learned my lesson clicking on any of the nsfw ones because it might not be something you want to see.

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