I checked my Pixelfed messages today and see this. I’ve literally no idea what the first half means, so I asked my daughter to translate the acronyms. No idea what “no disrespect” is conveying.

I never really thought of pixelfed as a place for spam or scammers. If the intent is genuine, then I’m even more perplexed by how they are choosing communicating. I’m not going to respond because it feels off, so yeah…

Perhaps I’m just showing my age?

  • mfed1122English
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    2 days ago

    Ehhh I don’t think this is too farfetched. Not all young people talk like this but some sure do. The no disrespect is kinda odd though, but may just be referring to him asking you a question out of the blue.

    But yeah I wouldn’t respond just on the basis of I hate people asking if they can ask me a question but not asking the question. Like well you already asked me one question and now I need to wait to hear the second one?

    • CosmicGoat@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      Yeah. It’s not like you only get one message with X characters. They could have just got to the point. 😁

      Seems more like the one of the wrong number sms spams. Those can actually be pretty fun to respond to for awhile. 🙃

      Ohh. That would be a great thread to start here. Share your most amusing SMS phishing exchanges.😁

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        23·
        1 day ago

        What pisses me off about this is that if they believe that’s rude, they’re already being rude nt asking one. Like you literally just asked me a question. Just assssskkkkkkk ughhh. People can be exhausting.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            If someone has a question, I can answer it immediately if they just ask me. If they say hi, ask me how I’m doing, or ask if they can ask me something, then it is going to take me longer to get them the information they need. Besides, there’s never a setting where the answer to “can I ask you a question” is no, because they’ve given me no information about what type of question they want to ask. So to properly even answer that question I’d need to ask them more questions! So just ask the damn question. If I’m busy and can’t answer I’ll just say “I’m busy right now and will answer when I can” or direct them to someone else who I think can answer sooner.

            Besides, I’ve never been asked “do you have time to be asked some questions” which is not what I said I have a problem with. It’s specifically “can I ask you a question?”