Mastodon is slowly gaining popularity, but it also attracts bad actors and scammers. Remember that no verification or blue tick mark is for sale on any instance. Similarly, be aware of popular accounts getting cloned in some other cases. As usual, all of these scams have one goal: to steal your information, money, or cryptocurrency, or get you signed up for OF, etc. Stay on guard and report such accounts or instances.
@nixCraft Please remember that sex workers that use OF are not scammers but are just earning an income. π
Anyone wanting to put me on OF is either very very stupid, or very very brave.
I'm not sure which is worse.
@trendytoots Since yesterday I stopped using the federated timeline.. I saw two NSFW that where like wtf my wife and child could have been there.. I just look at people I follow!
@nixCraft I wasn't aware of the popularity gain of Mastodon. It's good to hear
@nixCraft Granted, there are certainly legitimate people out there that use OF for income, but if I were to get spam replies/PM's asking me to sign up to one randomly and has no relevance to the content I post, than I know it's more than likely a scam (or they could possibly just be stealing content from elsewhere on the Internet and reposting them to their private OF followers without the original creators knowing, who really knows).
@nixCraft Just found one and reported the account and server π
>or get you signed up for OF
You say that like it's a bad thing. It would be awesome to have my OF people also hanging out here just chilling, sharing or promoting.
@nixCraft I've noticed a significant increase of activity of pro-Russian, pro-China and pro-NorthKorea content on the fediverse which likely means that their PR departments noticed Mastodon and Lemmy
@nixCraft i still feel left out I haven't been messaged by Amanda or whatever her name is.
@nixCraft However you are able to place verified links, e.g to your website and your website contains a backlink with <a href="..." rel="me">Mastodon</a> to your account. Also works with GitHub btw.
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@nixCraft was about to boost but advertising an OF page is not a scam. It's important to use common sense when drawing the distinction between legitimate sex workers/erotic content creators and porn bots.
OF (and Fansly) actually make every creator go through a lengthy verification process including giving them ID, biometrics, personal social media and tax information.
@nixCraft calling sex workers scammers is not a good look. π€¨
