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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It seems unlikely that there's a lot of people botting Lemmy right now just because...why bother? But I doubt there's anything systemic in place to prevent it, and I'd imagine that the decentralized nature would make it really easy to skirt attempts to block it.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We had the whole... 'Fediverse Girl' thing, a while back now... somebody stole someone's pic and was was dming people as a sort of brute force catfish attempt...

But I haven't seen too much of anything else?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There there, she'll always be in our hearts.

And also possibly our image cache repositories, depending on your client/browser settings.

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