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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
submitted 2 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 95 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Honestly, the only real solution is leaving Twitter. With the plan to remove the block feature this will only get worse and worse. I really don’t see this sort of thing getting better anytime soon or later.

Some options: Mastodon is great, push through that initial anxiety about servers and just hop on. Not threads! Unless you’re okay with FaceBook taking, very literally, all your data. Bluesky I’ve heard is okay, but it’s another billionaire project that has an algorithm to do whatever they want.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you find people you want to follow on other instances with mastodon? I've tried searching all kinds of ways with username and instance, but it doesn't find the people I'm looking for (specific accounts)

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

trending works great now, hashtags always worked, and many apps support features like following instances. The search feature is upcoming so maybe wait for that to drop

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah Ive already done this, they don't appear when searching...is this method only usable for the website version?

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can't say that I know for sure, but could be that the app doesn't support this (yet)?

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I came find you like this from the Mastodon app.

I'm finding you like this.

Yes, we can follow Lemmy users from Mastodon.

Maybe the accounts you're looking for are in defederated instances?

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No they should be on large federated instances too...but that is not my mastodon account, I have an account in a different instance for mastodon.

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop using shitter.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

You sound like my boss

[–] DosCommas@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are all over LinkedIn with really obvious fake profiles. LinkedIn is doing nothing to stop it.

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

LinkedIn is feeling like abandonware.

[–] specfreq@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't get it. Why do people even like Twitter, old or new?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

Twitter used to be an absolutely great way to keep up with breaking news, because so many reporters were there. I joined twitter during the Arab Spring, because so much that was happening was being talked about on Twitter. Same with a lot of social movements - twitter was a place where you could make something local go global. If anything was happening in the world, twitter was the place to follow it.

But now? Now, it’s a desert of information. It’s depressing to watch a place that was so vibrant become the home of Musk shills and weird right wingers. I loved Twitter, before Elon took over. Now, it’s fading, and fast.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It was good place to keep up with artists and game developers. They share each other's work in a way that is great to discover more artists and games that you didn't know about.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Grumpy gamer moved to mastadon so I gave it a crack. It's great. Lots of game devs there.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh? Who’s on Mastodon? I could always use more people to follow!

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ron Gilbert. The creator of Monkey Island. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer

Through him, you'll soon find so many developers.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Followed; thanks!

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

He's said if you mention / tag him re your game, he'll boost it for you. He's forever boosting indi games. Top bloke.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Its far smaller but plenty of niche communities have moved there.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yep, before deleting my Twitter account after the muskrat invasion I used Twitter to keep up with the developers in my niche. As they usually have insights or I can get a sense on how the tech is going to progress by reading their updates.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I could say this about most social media. Im on facebook just as a last ditch way for friends and family to reach me, linkedin for keeping contact with workmates, never saw a usecase for twitter but I see folks ones below.

[–] eleanor@social.hamington.net 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.