I can't wait for the future 4 hour video deep dive into Nicole history and lore.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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What of the recent NSFW/gore images that were shared? Has that been reported to authorities?
Not expecting police to solve it, but at least it would be on their radar.
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I’ve been lurking in ALL for about a week pretty consistently having now completely abandoned the alternatives and I’m not sure I saw the image in question. In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t. So, those of you worried about the image… many of us, I presume, didn’t even see it. Anyway… glad to see there is a process to deal with miscreance and glad to know it works!
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Thank you, as someone who looked into this I am glad to see this being taken seriously. The real Nicole is for sure a victim and does not deserve to be doxxed and made into a meme.
This is a copy+paste of a comment I left on the [email protected] mod post after the recent incident with the gruesome picture(s?):
“I think if Lemmy doesn’t have the infrastructure to defend against attacks like these which are presumptively conducted by one bad actor, then it doesn’t have the infrastructure to defend against wealthy organizations when our communities do get big enough to be noticed by them.
[[email protected]]’s history underscores how the messaging system in particular needs a massive overhaul; using image recognition as a filter for messages like Lemmy.World does for image posts (with options for NSFW that isn’t NSFL?), preventing images (and URLs? or only allowing white-listed sites?) from being sent within the first message sent between users (unless a box is ticked?), not showing message recipients images until they are directly opened, and preventing the de-anonymizing of message recipients should be made first priority for the next patch.”
Dont render images in private message (#3043)
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11
Ah very cool. A recent update too. Thanks.
Yes. As you can see, a few large instances like lemm.ee, lemmy.ca and others have already updated: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy?version=0.19.11
Hopefully others will follow soon
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Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but are you able to confirm whether admins have reported this to the police?
Even if violence hasn't been perpetrated, the harassment is still a crime surely.
I don't know if others have, I only know that we (Lemmy.World, Fedihosting Foundation) have not reported it to the police.
I don't have high hopes that the police would be able to do anything about this. For the harassment against the person shown in the images, that would likely have to be reported by them directly for the police to take that up.
For random online spam, as in harassment of fediverse users receiving the PMs, that seems like it would be an extremely low priority for police. It's also likely fairly difficult to impossible to follow up on, considering that the person sending the PMs most likely used a VPN to access these accounts.
Hmm.
The people receiving the spam are not being harassed, obviously.
The woman depicted is very likely the target of harassment.
Sharing the images depicting violence is tantamount to a threat of violence.
As admins, you're not just witnesses but the stewards of a community and the representatives of many thousands of people in this matter.
Pre-empting what the police will do is not a reason not to report. You don't know what they will do. They might do nothing at you would have wasted 15 minutes. On the other hand perhaps Nicole has been trying to get a restraining order against some creep but has been unable to due to lack of evidence.
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Agreed. At least here in the US, you'd have more chance of winning the lottery than getting a cop to care about this issue without the person directly involved reporting it. And even then it would be a crapshoot.
The right cop will care about it, but the right cop doesn't work for your city and so you don't have any way to contact them.
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Yeah it seemed funny at first but the longer this went on the creepier it got as we all realized this isn't just a catfish.
Whoever is doing this to the actual person in the photos is a terrible human being and should go climb under a rock for the rest of their lives.
part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted
Oh boy that's horrible, if true I hope she has reported it to police, and they can help her.
I gotta give it to you guys. The foresight to prevent a disaster is 10/10. Top tier. Well done.
to be honest, this should have been done way earlier.
Still glad you're doing it now!
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It's pretty obvious ...
What's scary is how many people just accepted that some woman wanted to randomly spam thousands of pictures with her smoking weed.
Maybe they're used to onlyfans bots.
That would make since if any of the pictures were selfies and not random screen grabs off a webcam
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Thank you for your work managing the spam waves!