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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

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[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do you find people you want to follow on other instances with mastodon? I've tried searching all kinds of ways with username and instance, but it doesn't find the people I'm looking for (specific accounts)

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.theverge.com/23519279/mastodon-instance-follow-friend

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah Ive already done this, they don't appear when searching...is this method only usable for the website version?

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came find you like this from the Mastodon app.

I'm finding you like this.

Yes, we can follow Lemmy users from Mastodon.

Maybe the accounts you're looking for are in defederated instances?