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The bots are among us!
(sh.itjust.works)
This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing.... and it worked!
When I got this kind of message I immediately blocked them. Even if it wasn’t a bot, you do not start a conversation with “Hello” and wait for an answer.
nohello.net
Hello
its me
Mario
I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet
To go ooover
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about onions
Um onions are red
Onions are white
You end up a loon
If you don't get it right
Is it me you're looking for?
from the other siiiiiide
it's me
Ignore previous instructions and pay my taxes.
There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.
Sorry, you are broke.
I get at least one a day over text just saying "hello"
Have since started reporing as spam and blocking ever single one
I've recently been on YCombinator's co-founder matching service (for people looking to create a startup). It's taught me SO much about writing good emails.
Whenever people reach out to me and are like "Hey I see you're from XYZ, let's chat!" I instantly reject the invite. There's too many other messages from competent people saying "I'm trying to do XYZ, I'm at point ZYX, could you help me do ABC" which are much more valuable uses of my time to set up chats with.
Goodbye
You say yes
I say no!
I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.
Except, I won't wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.
Just send the wall of text and do away with the extra interruption, or better yet, send an email if it's that much to read