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Is the r/askMonero subreddit compromised?

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Jun 22, 2026 7:23 PM Last edited Jun 22, 2026 7:24 PM
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r/askMonero (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMonero/) was created Jan 2026, mods have private profiles (1 is very low karma), and on some posts they're shilling a swap site I've never heard of before "https://swap.fujn.com/"

Might be schizo, but my theory is this is a more complex version of the creating a fake 'how to buy xmr' post, then editing to add a scam swap site. Any thoughts?

kycnot.me have it unlisted,
https://kycnot.me/service/fujn-swap#verification

recently added to Monerica with 0 reviews @monerica
https://monerica.com/site/fujn-swap

Screenshot shows likely botted upvotes on one of the mods comments.

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Jun 23, 2026 5:39 PM
#12

Cool. Someone found a bug to bypass the approval. I'm looking into it now :)

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Jun 23, 2026 7:39 PM Edited Jun 23, 2026 7:55 PM
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The admin from r/askMonero thinks I'm somehow a rep for trocador, and that he has found another "account" of mine... Then seems to threaten me, nice!

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edit: add some of my replies here. Will edit / reply further if any more useful info

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Jun 23, 2026 9:14 PM
#14

so they deleted their threat and other comments, made me a mod but refuse to change their behaviour because they are paid by Fjun.

My questions have been ignored for following topics: if they have made any donations to CCS etc, to provide some info about their history. Also, why it is OK to have "Promotional content or scam services will result in a permanent ban. " in their stickied post etc, when not disclose that they are paid by this random swap service.

This is dishonest at best.

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Jun 23, 2026 10:04 PM
#15

@quadriocellata lolol wtf
what you even gonna do as a mod over there tho? burn the whole thing to the ground or somethin? like idk lol
i mean, if the whole thing been a scam from the start...
:shrugs:

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Jun 23, 2026 10:39 PM Edited Jun 23, 2026 10:42 PM
#16

@SpinningCat I have quit it now, I don't have permissions to do that much, and they wouldn't let me anyway (eg stopping these shilled posts). I think this is to try and "save face" from their side.

They have an active filter on all comments that mention Trocador which is interesting.

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Jun 23, 2026 10:59 PM
#17

no idea about fjun but back in january when it was made they had a few questions, almost 100% answered with some FUD. Assumed it was created as a controlled FUD subreddit.

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Jun 24, 2026 1:08 AM
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Thank you for warning the community and also sending me comments on my post, i believe they removed that but I saw on notifications. And filtering the Trocador is really weird. I posted on /r/AskMonero last week just because my post on /r/Monero got removed after 1-2 minutes, and this is happening second time. Either Reddit is blocking me because I am using VPN or /r/Monero sub is very strict on posts.
Btw I messaged the moderation but no response :)

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Jun 24, 2026 4:40 AM Edited Jun 24, 2026 4:59 AM
#19

@nolan
oh wtf...
and that was before my crashouts on june 22nd in #monero and #monero-community...
which i did namedropped xmrstars, like for example, first part of that comment:

i guess powertripping literal critters actually felt threatened for their paycheck: https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/plowsof_7_continued.html meanwhile they still didnt allow the patreon alternative account on the ccs, why? literally why? am not behind that project, but that's a project that would allow people to make a living from their work through monero, cant be having that now, right?

context on the crashout, started over at #monero:
https://libera.monerologs.net/monero/20260622
got instantly banned for doing a PSA for the forum going offline due to host isp thing, was from my legit account from 4d2 homeserver: https://4d2.org

well, started with the motivational quote of the day from that thread: https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=105343392&f=27&p=691420345 so maybe motivational things are a bit too unhinged for them (post #2880 was after the full crashout and is legit wholesome tho, my crashouts be valid, just sayin)

then the full crashout then happened over at #monero-community (which is where namedropped xmrstars):
https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-community/20260622

which then continued a bit the crashout on june 23rd in #monero:

these matrix channels are run by literal scammers, haveno has dealt with so much bad actors over the years trying to discredit the project
i was even banned from /r/xmrtraders subreddit for "being erccicione altaccount"

https://libera.monerologs.net/monero/20260623#c686824
which is literally something that happened few years ago, literally the reason for the ban "being erciccione's alt account" (which i am not.... like, fucking duh...)
i believe was after messaging all the mods all day long that sech1 was able to remove the ban if my memory correct on that...

like, Haveno has alot of history of being fudded by "Monero people" for literally years and years, the ban i got on that was just fucked up, so props to sech1 doing the right thing at the time

but ever since, it has been my opinion that some malicious rats been infiltrating monero community...

so while this thread is for a completely unrelated subreddit from different people (askMonero), i been seeing similar patterns for /r/Monero and /r/xmrtrader for few years already...

then aftermath of the crashout with a question from rbrunner7:

Just to satisfy my curiosity: What do people assume, who is "CrittersThreatened"?

https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-community/20260623

which, my apologizes kinda doxxing him on that for being wholesome (like actually wholesome), which was after a big pump after the theatrics from november last year, speculating reddit people been doing a price speculation thread, and his post on it was just wholesome, pretty much calling out the speculation and that he didnt think it was from something healthy and that would end up in tears for many people (lots of context here not gonna get into)
but was after his reply on the price speculation thread that i then made a post in an other place, trying to lessen the worries of people that might have been worried regarding the whole thing (so tldr on that, rbrunner7 legit wholesome, he might not have made the connection, or even remembering anything about it or what, but that's a thumbup for the guy on a human level right here)

so anyways, sry walls of text "trying to explain context" and the crashouts and some namedropping while it shouldnt even be yall battles to fights...
and maybe am just being skyzo (probably not) for thinking that the xmrstars thread was manually removed by a /r/Monero mod because of said context, whoever that might be....
but it being few days prior to the actual crashout... like, yea, my crashouts be valid... and i should have done more lol

tldr: @nolan and @moneroforum, i sowry for your projects being caught up in the dramas associated with my personal beefs or whatever, this shouldnt be your battles so that's unfortunate...

the rot in the community is real tho
literal corporate slop from these people, some scam looks more legit and professional than some others, they're still scams...

edit:
to clarify real quick,

  • a patreon alternative can be seen as a threat and competition by the CCS gatekeepers, since it would allow contributors to get funding outside of the CCS
  • forums like moneroforum can be seen as a threat and competition to the people in power on the monero subreddits

edit2:
@4d2 my apologizes to you as well if some of the monero psyops been sent your way because of these... which yesterday some bans were requested from people over there on new people acting as literal psyop (am just an observer on that, but they been called out as actual "psyops" without me mentioning anything so props to the community over there as well)

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Jun 24, 2026 6:17 AM
#20

What did you expect? Reddit itself is clearly the most insidious scam that exists to brainwash (doomscrolling) and humiliate its users whilst serving the illusion of a forum and thereby helping to distract and deprive the masses from the real thing. Its a free market for censorship. Our real life forums have been removed, censored and shat all over. There is no public third space, only commercial space for the execution of prescribed transactions. Pubs, leisure centers, gyms, cafes, marketplaces, nightclubs... now they're fucking useless! (Book reference: https://www.reengineeringhumanity.com/) Every business or public institution that used to cater to this need has been 'enforced all over' and rendered impotent in that faculty. No wonder we've been left in the sorry state of arguing on reddit like boys deprived a punchup. Where can we go now that is a forum?

Thank God (and @admin) for this forum, is goated.

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Jun 24, 2026 5:26 PM
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@SpinningCat I don't care how other community people see this project as a thread or not. As long as if it can help anyone and increase the usage of monero, I will be happy with it. I will try to register with xmrstars.com email address tomorrow on CCS, if it wont work i will stop work on that. monero.forum community already covered the server costs and I am happy to work on this project from my own free time. As long as I am alive, healthy and earning from my own work, I will continue working on this project.

I don't know subreddit see here as a thread or not but what I can tell is this forum is much much better on freedom of speech and moderation, and I believe @admin working alone in this project. Kudos on effort here and dont forget to send some donation here :) because this forum deserves that.

@Nebuchadnezzar_II you are right about reddit, but I found out the monero on reddit :) That's why I wanna reach out more people there but looks like backfired by /r/Monero moderators. And this is not my first time posts removed in minutes. For example I was looking for brochure related to business owners but after posting got removed. I know that there are a lot of scammers but it's not hard to filter out them while blocking the high quality posts or projects.

Btw, competition is not a bad thing, it can increase the traffic and also market can get better and better because of criticism. If tomorrow someone else wanna create a better version of Patreon alternative, it's actually very good thing for me because it will increase the traffic to market which means new people joining to market. But most important is Monero will win, isn't that cool :)

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