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[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 12 points 2 days ago

Might want to mask that phone number.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 76 points 2 days ago

It's the bot's number. Fuck em.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

I understand, but keep in mind it could be an innocent user whose phone is taken over by malware, better be safe than sorry.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 39 points 2 days ago
[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

Oh, you can update the picture on Lemmy? Didn’t even occur to me, because I’m so used to the bad practices of Reddit.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

All fun and games until we comment how wholesome something is, it swaps to goatse, and our comments get screenshotted & us doxxed.

That’d be a pretty targeted attack (and a good chance to find out who we know has a good sense of humor). Quite unlikely.

Could think of a sicko getting CSAM in the #1 spot on the front page if their initial upload was worthy of getting there…

Content swaps & edits always have some problems but I’ve definitely appreciated that feature.

[-] prayer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Or one day a huge poster sells their account for a bunch of money and all the top posts across many communities become ads.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Hope we’re big enough to that to happen someday heh

Even if we verified with social security (govt. ID) numbers, there’d still be astroturfers. Even with IRL KYC (e.g. must be invited by an existing user who swears they met you in meatspace), there still would be. Ahhh!!! We decide where we’ll marry the love of our lives, the retirement community we’ll put grandma in, where we want to vacation or just share lunch based on online reviews/discourse. Badly wish we had a fix.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Well, as long as Lemmy remains small enough, content swapping probably isn’t going to be a major issue. I think I’ve seen some posts about the data Lemmy collects. Isn’t there like a public history of upvotes, edits and all that?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I believe admins have access to just about everything including PMs.

I would guess that for some people, shocking a hundred users before a mod can delete a post would feel like a win in their feeble & deranged minds, so reactive controls (while very important) have a limit to their value.

Don’t have any suggestion here haha just hoping folks behave and weirdos keep it to 4chan.

[-] olicvb@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

We have logs right?? (i genuinely don't know and am hoping we do)

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Sickos probably have TOR :-/ Hopefully not, I’d definitely report to whoever comes up first on a web search for that (there are a couple organizations, also I think the FBI).

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Y'all so wholesome

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