We are aware of a spam campaign of accounts like "supportbot" that attempted to impersonate pixelfed.social staff and get users to click on a malicious link.
I (Daniel Supernault (npub1xsv…q6he)) was on the way home from FediCon when the reports came in, and I promptly suspended those accounts.
*Official communications from pixelfed.social admins/staff will only be sent via email, never DMs or comments.*
We are working on improved measures to prevent this type of abuse.
Please spread this message!
#Pixelfed
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2026-08-11 08:35:27 UTC
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2026-08-11 08:35:27 UTCEvent JSON
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