So they most likely were set up beforehand, huh. I wonder what the motive behind this nicole spam even is.
The spammer is watching the threads here and is changing stuff accordingly. If we assume there are two spammers, the first one is doing it for attention? And the second one is now trying to scare us? To make people leave the Fediverse, perhaps? Interesting stuff. Though as OP said, the second one is most likely a troll. It just doesn’t feel that “serious”.
Unfortunately a consequence of the Nicole sub being locked down is we won’t be able to track a very important detail: will the spam continue as before, change or stop? That would tell us a lot about whether it is one or multiple actors.
The most plausible explanation to me is some edgy user who had unused accounts left over on .world and .ml since the API exodus found a photo on a liveleak type site bearing a passing resemblance to “Nicole” and decided to troll/and or shock people. 4chan type behaviour.
Do you find it suspicious that the mod of !nicoled@lemmy.world is downvoting us? Their account was made an hour ago, and they made it just for that community.
In fact, their account just got banned.
Edit: oh, look at that, another fresh account, 4 mins ago.
@extension@lemmings.world, you’re free to explain us why
you really want a nicoled community huh, are you perhaps the one behind the nicole spam?
So they most likely were set up beforehand, huh. I wonder what the motive behind this nicole spam even is.
The spammer is watching the threads here and is changing stuff accordingly. If we assume there are two spammers, the first one is doing it for attention? And the second one is now trying to scare us? To make people leave the Fediverse, perhaps? Interesting stuff. Though as OP said, the second one is most likely a troll. It just doesn’t feel that “serious”.
Unfortunately a consequence of the Nicole sub being locked down is we won’t be able to track a very important detail: will the spam continue as before, change or stop? That would tell us a lot about whether it is one or multiple actors.
The most plausible explanation to me is some edgy user who had unused accounts left over on .world and .ml since the API exodus found a photo on a liveleak type site bearing a passing resemblance to “Nicole” and decided to troll/and or shock people. 4chan type behaviour.
Do you find it suspicious that the mod of !nicoled@lemmy.world is downvoting us? Their account was made an hour ago, and they made it just for that community.
In fact, their account just got banned.
Edit: oh, look at that, another fresh account, 4 mins ago. @extension@lemmings.world, you’re free to explain us why
you really want a nicoled community huh, are you perhaps the one behind the nicole spam?
I noticed that too - this is really odd.
Definitely curious if nothing else. I don’t have access to voter logs so I hadn’t noticed.
the community is now empty
They left the comments on the pinned post on. We can track stuff there.