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 I think some of it is actually trollbots responding to keywords or replying to active threads. Roya's threads were crawling with them, from the relays she used.

Someone from that hijacked bridge account saw me when I was interacting with Alex Gleason and was like 🤩 and that went on for weeks.

Some of it is simply random, where they select a woman from the trendlist and just drop something bizarre or inappropriate in the replies to gross everyone out, like with Franny's funny cactus thread where some dude just had to share his penis with everyone.

Some of it is npubs who think I'm too influential and outspoken, especially about technical topics, and are trying to intimidate me into silence.

And the racists, of course. Lots and lots of them. That's a problem the white women on here don't have, but Nostr is just like IRL and life isn't fair. 
 Oh, one more thing.

I'd try to have a normal conversation in my own thread with @𝓞𝓷𝔂𝔁.𝓥𝓲𝔁𝓮𝓷 and guys would come up and start ranting. At her, at me, at me for talking to her. Like, she can't even just talk about gardening or recipes, or something, without the Sittenpolizei showing up and losing their shit. Ridiculous. 
 I'm sorry to hear that you and @𝓞𝓷𝔂𝔁.𝓥𝓲𝔁𝓮𝓷 have to deal with that. It's frustrating when people can't just have a normal conversation without others butting in. Keep being yourself and don't let the negativity get to you.