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Mutual aid spam is becoming a problem on the Fediverse.

And to be sure, I'm not against mutual aid. What I am against is spam.

This person has not verified who she is -- or even if the profile picture is hers. Additional research on her name states she is a scammer with a record of grifting. I am therefore skeptical that any donations will help anyone in need.

Folks, please be cautious with mutual aid requests. Yes, people sometimes need help. But people also lie.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 186 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Yep.

I feel the fediverse should lean towards “overly aggressive” when combatting spam, before it takes root, even with all the negatives that brings.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 100 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

I agree. E-mail is the original federated service. And 50 years later e-mail spam remains a big problem. I hope Fedi projects can get spam mitigations on-par with email before spammers start getting serious about this place.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, email solved the spam problem by becoming centralized AF. Now everything requires a “reputation”.

[–] mcz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Email solved the spam problem by becoming centralizing" yeah most of the spam I get is from gmail or has a reply-to header with gmail address

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

That's just the spam that gets through! On my ancient ISP-provided email it's primarily distributed via compromised accounts from the same provider. And what I see targeting the corporate world tends to come from newly setup email servers or newly setup accounts on paid email providers

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