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 (nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq2tyk735v52ju032qahe3k2r520jlsujaem6xr8n0ex6u7eqj0anq7vp6sd (nprofile…p6sd)) was on the way home from FediCon when the reports came in, and I promptly suspended those accounts.
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2026-08-11 08:35:27 UTC
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"content": "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.\n\nI (nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq2tyk735v52ju032qahe3k2r520jlsujaem6xr8n0ex6u7eqj0anq7vp6sd) was on the way home from FediCon when the reports came in, and I promptly suspended those accounts.\n\n*Official communications from pixelfed.social admins/staff will only be sent via email, never DMs or comments.*\n\nWe are working on improved measures to prevent this type of abuse. \n\nPlease spread this message!\n\n#Pixelfed",
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