Apparently, there's a bug where mentioning me in a DM sends people a DM from me. 🤷♀️
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It blows my mind that such a bug is even possible, since I'm not directly involved and don't even use those clients.
Someone is just gossipping about me, somewhere, and other people end up with DMs from me. 🙃
i've had this happen also, and dozens of other users, used to be much more prevalent back in the day, that's for sure
Freaky. I kept getting people DMing me like
"I can't open it!"
"What do you want?"
"Can't read it, sorry."
And I was like huh?
eh, nothing to overthink about 💜
i've stressed test things a bit regarding dms way back
etc what happens when you copy paste the noteID of a dm to a post
😎 Love the stress testers.
stress tested, my lord my english has gone ratchet as of late
if you have any other questions, hmu, happy to share my experiences, as i've been here for over a year now
I was just worried that someone was trying to ask them for money. 😏
Can't client devs do some quality-control on incoming DMs, to prevent this?
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub129z0az8lgffuvsywazww07hx75qas3veh3dazsq56z8y39v86khs2uy5gm nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7 nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
if i mention you in my DMs, and i am DMing you, who shall receive this message? shall you be DMing yourself? or Shall i receive a DM from you? how does this bug work ? and what shall be the contents of this said sent DM?
No, the bug is that npub1 DMs npub2 and mentions npub3 and npub2 gets a fake DM from npub3.
So, then they write npub3 and ask about the DM because they can't open it.
aaaaaaah oh my god. now i know why i got so many DMs. pipo were gossiping me. oh my god hahahahahaha Thank you .
this happened to me like six months ago. a bunch of people wrote me saying i messaged them. and i was like, i did not. you could clearly see from my end of the chat, they started the conversation. it was so freaking weird i thought people were pranking me. and thats how i started distancing my self on #nostr from certain people.
I also thought it was an elaborate troll, but it was starting to come from people I doubted would troll me.
isnt that sort of what is supposed to happen though. petty shit coming from the ones least expected? im not surprised. i feel sad for people with time to discuss me in their DMs. tbh .
Well, the person who wrote you didn't even get the DM, probably. They just got sent one that they can't read, that seemed to be from you.
they get the DM with the mention from who ever they are discussing with. those are the contents you cant read since you'd need either nsecs to decrypt it. dunno whether that makes sense.
That's a relay job if you ask me.
I consider QC everyone's job.
I don't have any hands on with this issue. But DMs are a totally different note kind, so when "mentioning" someone that @ or npub is stored in the ciphertext so I client cant know about the mention until its decrypted? I'm curious where parsed cihpertext model overlaps with the rendering of new message "channels". Weird.
How is this a relay issue? Relay should be unaware of a "mention" in a DM.