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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.

Screenshot From 2026-06-22 20-17-41

Screenshot From 2026-06-22 20-18-17

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Jun 24, 2026 8:26 PM
#22

@nolan
your broken english kinda sus ngl lol, i mean, is good awarness for like opsec type thing
not native speakers talking the american for opsec reasons
americans talking the not native english speaking for opsec reasons
but if you're doing the techy things, pretty much everything is english on that, like, you code in english
programming languages are literally english is what i trying to say lol, so like, broken english would be more a redflag on the end product or somethin somethin

and while you mentioned xmrstars wouldnt be made by llm and would also be opensource, your main website do have all of the llm things lol, the emojis, the em dashes, all of it lol

so yea, just a few tips here and there if actually legit about the whole patreon alternative thing, some great work been done so far, would be a shame if the end product doesnt meet expections there

btw @nolan, you can also get a green name thing since you were on the discourse version of the forum:
https://monero.forum/thread/og-rank-for-members-of-the-old-forum
if it can make you and the project look more legit somehow lol
since the broken english thing and llm redflags on main website tots might not work in your favor there lol

I will try to register with xmrstars.com email address tomorrow on CCS, if it wont work i will stop work on that.

regarding that first part, that's smart yea, feel free to post on the forum when you do as well, so it can be notified to the #monero-community channel for manual approval, else they probably just wont even bother, they're lazy ass working the 9-5 bureaucracy-tm over there and might need a little push for actually clicking the approval button thing lol
as for the latter part, giving up usually not the answer tho, but keep trying u know
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=I1PhB9Y87Yg

also i really like your take about competition that it would indeed just bring more people to the patreon alternative market overall, so that is a good thing too
while it would be nice to have a successful project on the first try there, the endgoal is still to grow the ecosystem
and the work that both you and @sepia done so far, the market research and so on, especially post #77 over there: https://monero.forum/thread/patreon-competitor?page=8#reply-1693
(@admin still not clickable post number but figured the workaround as well there 😹)
like, that is still great work that yall did on the research there, that even in the case xmrstars might not be the one for some reason, that research wont be lost regardless and could be picked up by a similar project eventually

so yea, @nolan even in the case the project would encounter issues or anything, thank you for the research still, to both you and @sepia

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Jun 24, 2026 8:28 PM
#23

oh welp, @quadriocellata just realized got first post on page #3, and being totally offtopic there, sry hijacking your thread lol

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Jun 25, 2026 2:21 AM
#24

@SpinningCat I never lie here and never will. Neither I am an American, or my name is Nolan. I do have unique name, that's why I call myself Nolan irl or online.

You are right about how important english language on programming. I started learning programming in 2017, while working my day job (we are talking about 8h-14h shifts). So, I might be the worst english speakers + programmer because I didn't have time to learn much. But got lucky in just before covid found myself an internship. One thing I noticed that I am good at is listening people's problems and providing solutions, maybe thats the reason I can work as a programmer today. Xmrstars will never be perfect. Maybe a lot of people gonna hate the beta version. But as I mentioned earlier, I will listen every feedback and make it better and better everyday. That's why I am always asking to community.

I never used LLM on my website, neither xmrstars's codebase. I know that LLM like emojis but humans too :)
Can you send me where did you see the em dash on my website? I don't even know how to write on keyboard that lol. I use en dash :) But thank you for being honest here. At least I can listen and fix my mistakes. Nobody perfect after all.

I contacted admin about green title, thank you for letting me know about that.

Thank you for kind words on @sepia 's work and research. And yes, I wanna make it open source this project, but not right now. Even if xmrstars project fails, I believe people can start an alternatives, just like xmrchat example (i am talking about tipxmr.live project) I know that people cannot trust me and this project at day one but I believe I will earn that in the next couple months. Trust me, everything I am doing will be transparent on this project, thinking like this project.

@quadriocellata sorry about that :) @SpinningCat if you have more questions or opinion, you can create a new thread and we can discuss.

And sorry for my broken english :)

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Jun 25, 2026 2:38 AM
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Jun 25, 2026 2:51 AM
#27

@nolan replying on reply #18. Yeah reddit sucks. That was the reason for me to search alternative forum and then I stumble on this forum which is really cool that the moderation is strict but not aggresive like the reddit one.

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