This reminds me of old 4Chan when they’d share rare photos of Chan girls. But like, a little different because these are being sent straight to our inboxes.

Well, not me. I haven’t been chosen. 😔

This latest one where she ‘S looking down looks like the background is removed poorly too—which tracks with zoom.

Same thought. This seems more likely. Especially with new photos being dropped in different clothes.

Let’s say you had something compromising on someone. There’s so much smut out there that that alone might not be “fun” enough to torture your target with. It’d probably get lost in all the noise of the internet.

If you instead, spread their image in an ARG style campaign, you’ve now got an entire forum of people who would identify the compromising material as “Nicole.”

There’s entire creators online that focus on internet oddities. If you really wanted to torture someone, you could make their face specifically known for a separate reason (here, cover is a romance scam that goes nowhere.)

I’m not saying this is happening here. But if you truly wanted to harass someone and gain coercive control over them, this would be a pretty effective way to do that without sharing the compromising payload.

Which, we might consider this might be a coercion tactic towards the victim in addition to a targeted harassment.

As in, “See look all these people know your face now. They’re all looking for you. Do what I want and I won’t share the compromising material.”

Blackmail.

This (new?) photo looks like it was taken when someone was unaware.

That would be horrible and makes this more creepy than anything. I almost hope it’s a scam instead of targeted harassment. But now that you’ve said this I feel very uneasy that you may be right

Yeah springer was a lawyer and later regretted everything from what I read.

Danke, dass du das sagst. Es ist richtig, dass Frauen es vermeiden, mit respektlosen Männern auszugehen. Brauchen wir jeden Tag 10 “Nachrichtenartikel” darüber? Die gleiche Dummheit wird in Amerika verbreitet. Die dummen Nachrichten schaffen ein Narrativ, das uns spaltet.

Die Schreiber wollen die Ängste der Frauen bestätigen: dass Männer eine Bedrohung sind. Und sie wollen die Schwarz-Weiß-Paranoia der Incels bestätigen: dass alle Frauen Männer hassen, sie immer ablehnen werden und dass Frauen deshalb bestraft werden müssen. Es ist die Bestätigung falscher Vorurteile, die uns daran hindert, all das zu erreichen, was Sie geschrieben haben. Es ist Gift.

Ich stimme mit @killingspark@feddit.org überein. Die Männer, die sich aufregen, sind emotional unreif. Sie haben Schwierigkeiten, ihre Emotionen zu regulieren. Und sie suchen Trost in einer Gruppe, in der sie ihre Niedergeschlagenheit und Wut aggressiv zum Ausdruck bringen können. Diese Art von Menschen sind oft nicht durch eine gute politische Strategie motiviert. Sie wählen den schnellsten Weg, um sich auszutoben und sich sofort mächtig zu fühlen. Ich glaube nicht, dass diese Männer jemals der Linken beitreten würden. Die Beschwerden sind eine Ausrede.

Ich entschuldige mich für mein Deutsch. Ich lerne immer noch und benutze manchmal die falschen Worte. Danke für dein Verständnis haha

Great work! I think I’ll try for other subs. Let us know if it’s successful.

It might be the time tone encoding and steganography. But I believe witches and our history are fairly familiar with speaking in code to communicate.

Thanks for updating us

Vielen Dank für Ihre Arbeit! :)

I’m from Reddit too. I started on Lemm.ee and I made accounts at like 4 other instances. It’s extremely easy to make accounts and switch in the app you’re using (I’m on Voyager).

Feddit.org, a German server, was down earlier for Maintenace and I switched to infosec. It’s really easy. Not a commitment to apply and jump between instances.

You don’t have to wait. You could apply for a few you like the description of and try them out. If you don’t like them, don’t use them. If you like them—stau! :)

Ok sick I’ll check those out thanks 👌

Dude for the last year on Reddit I could NOT get a normal feed. It was always sneaking in AITA threads. It was absurd. And then the comments were even more absurd.

Did you see the PR company/ PR person Melissa Nathan that was caught manipulating pop culture subreddits for actors?

Like I could tell it was off and not at all like Reddit used to work but all this makes it so apparent that the content is being driven so hard by factions and bots. It’s mostly not real people anymore doing or influencing anything.

So glad to be on Lemmy with you :)

You can change the settings I think in Voyager.

Im on voyager now and I replied to you using the “…” and tapping “reply.”

You can also allow change the settings to show normal upvote and downvote buttons. (If your instance allows downvotes you can downvote on the down arrow button too. )

That’s how and why I joined over here. They implemented the upvote = ban policy. I got a warning. I have no idea what for because I pretty much upvote everything I read. I am pretty loose and will even upvote entire argument threads if I think the argument is worthwhile to read.

As soon as I was warned for upvoting the wrong thing, but not told which of my thousands of upvotes were wrong, I deleted Reddit.

Anyway, it’s nice here on Lemmy.

Hey I just discovered your community and joined after leaving Reddit ! Please everyone spread the word to others on the main space to come over here. :)

I’m very familiar with this community—they should migrate over here.

They’re witches. Of all different types of craft. A broom is something a witch rides or flies on in popular culture.

It’s saying that witches can survive against fascism if they band together in their covens and use their witchcraft.

Or, more simply, if they stand together in their faith then they will survive together.

Witches don’t actually fly on broomsticks or hit people with broomsticks. They’re just normal people. It’s slightly in jest.

I think you’re on to something. Presidential Republics are inherently unstable. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that South Korea is facing similar issues to America and both have Presidential systems.

After this settles if we aren’t all fighting in anarcho-capitalist communes, America might consider similar structural reform and consider a Prime Minister style of bicameralism (but they can call it President instead).

You make a good point and it’s a hopeful one

Dude something very weird is going on on Reddit. I’ve been through it with them for 12 years and this is like nothing I’ve ever seen.

I finally deleted the terrible Reddit app when my feed was blasted with repeated comments that “Reddit is far left and the left are domestic terrorists.” Sorry what?

These very weird not based in reality comments are posted almost verbatim in every thread. These people usually never respond to conversation.

It’s very very weird

I think your prediction is probably spot on. Reddit already feels like incel 9gag with a bunch of Russians pretending to be American college students.

Edit: oh if that’s your optimistic take then oh wow haha I am staying here on Lemmy I’ll start posting too

I never understood WorldNews. I said back in November pretty plainly that Trump won and so I fear that America would eventually leave or attack NATO. I said I was afraid that Trump would side with Russia outright. That we would abandon our allies in the Pacific, too. That our inaction would create a gap for China to fill. That the gap might be big enough to embolden China who then might make moves on Taiwan.

And I was downvoted (which is fine) but the comments I got were kind of bewildering. The people who engaged with me were trying to convince me that Trump would never side with Russia and there is no evidence ever of this.

And of course here we are now. And all of these things are happening.

The whole Gaza thing you mention—I understand the outrage—but I wonder how much of it online was manufactured in places like Pics because of the election.

Seeing the conversations here on Lemmy makes me think…there’s something very weird going on on Reddit. I’ve rode out Reddit drama over the past 12 years. This is not the narwhal at midnight website. This is something very dark.