Desktop computers are way better and more fun than using phone for browsing, wikipedia, news, and Lemmy

I rarely use my phone for anything other than texting. I like using my desktop computer to browse and post.

Most people on Lemmy aren’t as kind or open-minded as they like to appear. There’s plenty of hate here on this side of the aisle, but it gets excused because they believe they’re “on the correct side.”

tl;dr: You’re just as hateful and close-minded as the people you claim to be fighting. Same behavior, different colored hat.

So I may have a distant and weird connection to the originator of the Nicole spam. No proof, but here's my case.

I had this weird stalker on Lemmy—PapaSkwat@lemy.lol (account’s deleted now, so I think it’s fine to name him). Someone else did some digging and found out he was using a bot army to follow me around and downvote my posts.

While people were investigating that, they noticed something strange: the domains used by his bots matched the original Nicole spam domains.

Then, right after that investigation thread dropped, PapaSkwat suddenly deleted his profile. The same profile that had been active since around the time the Nicole spam started. And he’d been trolling and stalking me for months. One of his comments even admitted he was deliberately poking me to make me "snap.”

There’s this theory that the whole Nicole spam thing might’ve started as revenge. Like, maybe some guy got dumped or rejected, got obsessed, and started blasting her pics everywhere because he couldn’t let it go.

That kinda lines up with my stalker’s behavior. He’d get mad, obsessive, and go out of his way to tell people how awful I was. He even bragged about using alt accounts just to mess with me.

It was bizarre.

So here’s the chain: weird stalker gets outed for running downvote bots → bots are tied to Nicole spam domains → stalker suddenly vanishes → and now Nicole is “dead” (not for real, but metaphorically, like the spam just ends).

Maybe the guy realized the jig was up and decided to kill off the whole Nicole thing too?

I have no clue, no proof other that people's assumptions. It just seems a strange coincidence that my weird stalker guy disappears right after rumblings come up of him being involved in Nicole spam. Then right after he disappears, this dead nicole spam comes up.

Here’s the bot investigation post (2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club): https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

And here's a screenshot where he brags to someone about trying to make me "snap" and another where he brags to me directly about having alt names to stalk me too:

Yep. I'm amazed at how many Lemmy people don't realize this.

Oh for sure! lol

I've been this clever since the third grade!

Well eventually everyone is gonna be on the same page. But I'd bet that there are way more liberal EV owners than conservative EV owners. I could def be wrong tho, I didn't research or anything. Just talking outta my ass

I posted to two different conservative communities. Because one of them isn't seen by every instance due to federation stuff.

If you think that's spamming, well ok. See ya! lol

Great show!

You win!

If you would have said that before the election, you would have been burned at the stake in this community. Attitudes have changed real quick. lol

Agreed!

No, I put soap on my hands and rub the glasses, then rinse under the shower and put them on the ledge.

What the actual fuck?!

First I was horrified. Now I'm going to try this in a few minutes!

Right?! LMAO

Won’t engage. You’re an admitted troll trying to get people to snap.

The headcount at the independent federal agency prior to DOGE's onslaught was 48, and the average employee salary was $131,000 each year, according to Musk's department.

'The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue federal grants ($60million budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee),' DOGE posted to its X account on Tuesday ahead of Trump's Address to the Joint Congress.

The agency was created by Congress in 1969 to issue grants to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean for 'localized community-led development,' according to its now defunct website.

Yeah, fuck that. That's not where our money should go. Deserved to be shut down for sure.

Won’t engage. You’re an admitted troll trying to get people to snap.

Won’t engage. You’re an admitted troll trying to get people to snap.

Sounds like you are the russian troll.