• Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      3 个月前

      Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢

      • hungryphrogEnglish
        19·
        3 个月前

        🥵 HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA 🔥 --> totallynotascam. com

        Feel better now?

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11·
        3 个月前

        I never seem to get appropriately coded romance scams.

        I guess the RFI from my computer is jamming the gaydar.

      • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        2 个月前

        I didn’t get one either ☹️ I’m so starved for female attention I’d happily speak to a romance scammer, just can’t bring myself to do it on a non open platform.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        20·
        3 个月前

        Why the hell do you care enough to post that here? What difference is it to you if they type pr0n or porn? The ‘you’re not cussing enough’ crowd confuses the fuck out of me

        • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 个月前

          I mean, you still “cussed”. Switching two letters around doesn’t change the meaning and the original word doesn’t hold any special powers.

          I agree it’s not much to make a reply about.

          I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there’s not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.

          I think that’s not as true today but that’s where the backlash comes from.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            2 个月前

            You know, God forbid somebody uses voice dictation which bleeps it out or has to switch between work chats and social media.

            Fuck, Even if it is somebody puritanical quoting on something they’ve got 70 up votes and somebody else has to come in and bitch at them because they might have sellf censored a word.

            I think I’m just going to do the same rant every time someone plays that shit.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            2 个月前

            Mummy won’t shout at you.

            Who put you in charge of what words people choose to use do you have some form of badge for this?

            Why do you get to matter?

      • jwt@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        2 个月前

        Goddamn I cant believe I have to explain this. Typing porn as pron or pr0n is funny because it connotates a rather transparent way of trying to hide your porn collection on a computer used by others/relatives. It in no way has anything to do with censoring. Stop getting faux outraged by every little non-thing. (he said outraged by a non-thing)

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      7·
      2 个月前

      Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      There zero– I repeat, –ZERO girls on the internet. There wasn’t any, and there never will. You saw someone post a pic of themselves, and they were a girl? That’s AI. Went on a videocall with a woman? That’s heavy makeup (and AI). In fact, the term GIRL aactually means Guy In Real Life. Girls on the internet are actually goverment drones built to mess with MY feelings, and they will probably mess with yours, too. Be careful, they may be watching us right now… ARGH!!

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    48·
    3 个月前

    The Fediverse Scamgirl!

    Awkward Nerd Girls Want In Your DMs! They’re not in your area, just online!

    I almost made this same post and then decided I didn’t care enough. This was my take on the same;

    Also interesting that she has a different username literally everywhere and she’s speaking English, “from” Toronto, on a Swedish Lemmy instance.

    • gramie@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      3 个月前

      Also, the term “pre-health science”, that “she” used has never been used in Canada as far as I know. We don’t even say pre-med. Either you are in med school, or you are trying to get in, taking a variety of courses. There is no defined set of courses that we call pre-med.

      Other differences between us and the US regarding post-secondary education:

      Canadian universities are also almost completely free of fraternities and sororities.

      We have sports scholarships, but they are nowhere near as lavish as in the US. Sports in general is a minor sideline for Canadian universities.

      And to us, college always means community college. University is university (and never “uni” as some benighted countries call it).

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    37·
    2 个月前

    I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      It doesn’t take long to realize one can post in a “penpal” or similar communtity (create one if there isn’t) rather than messaging an awful number of strangers. Spamming is not okay either way, too bad few people realize it is spam without it being exposed by others.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          Exactly the same feeling for me. My first DM ever and it seemed suspicious. I get a lot of these annoying things in Telegram. They all start the same so it’s easy to figure out. But this one was different. Although the same, in the sense that they always introduce themselves yet still don’t seem to have anything to say, initially.

    • spicehoarder@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      I didn’t even consider it was a scammer, I thought it was some sort of self promotion

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 个月前

    Oh Dann I got this same message but it got deleted before I checked my inbox. I guess the instance mods are on point.

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
    15·
    2 个月前

    Yeah… it is global switch day. People switch to the fediverse.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    Yep, got it. Twice, actually, somebody’s finger must have slipped.

    It was kind of inevitable that fraudsters would figure out making a sockpuppet on here is easy.