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Just got a weird DM with a link from Rimu Discussion & Question Threadiverse Moderation (lazysoci.al)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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It's come out of nowhere. Totally unsolicited. Has his account been compromised?

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[โ€“] [S] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I've gone back 20 days in my posting history, haven't made a single post to a piefed community outside of this post here.

Since when do I have to authenticate my ID or my human status to instances I don't use?

It's actually weird and rude. I don't know if I should be offended or flattered.

For the record, I have an instance of Miniflux running and share the majority of my posts from there manually. Outside of that, I've shared a few Ed Sheeran things from my YouTube feed and I occasionally share my friends YouTube animations.

I don't even have a bookmarklet set up to share posts as I exclusively use mobile devices. Not sure why I should even have to defend myself.

Rude and weird.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Please don't worry yourself over this. You've done nothing wrong.

    I'd encourage anyone else that receives these messages to ignore them and block the sender.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    The instance runner didn't do anything wrong either, other than to word the message less than ideally. But there's a major point going on with the new "reposter" category, and users have made it clear they'd prefer such accts to be marked as such. That's the root of things.

    Iโ€™d encourage anyone else that receives these messages to ignore them and block the sender.

    To me that would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water. It's a one-time message that'll likely never be seen again, not any kind of spam or whatever. And if we blocked people as easily as that, then we might as well block everyone on the Fediverse who very occasionally annoyed us.

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