Stats from here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn’t there been a comparable drop in users and comments?
Edit: Thanks to @example@reddthat.com here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.
Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s
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
I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim
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.
Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from “her” accounts ?
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?
Tnx for the info , i meant the repost bots by “her”
Repost bots? Do you have an example, either by way of link or screenshot?
No, not rly , i just hear about it from other people getting messages/seeing posts but i never recieved any
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
Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can’t prove otherwise.
I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.
the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.
that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.
Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…
Nicole posts were banned and deleted en mass?
It’s probably just some technical issue. I’m sure the post didn’t actually go anywhere.
They just got up and left.
The front fell off
In case anyone hasn’t seen this bit:
LOL my sides Is this real or a bit/sketch?
It’s a sketch about a real incident.
That’s gold!
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force…as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
@blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com decided that he doesn’t need his alt accounts anymore.
All of universal monk’s alts got deleted
Is that the guy with a friend?
No, I’m positive universal monk has no friends
I remember a bot purge, but I’m not sure if that was around the same time.
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