Thank you for that ^w^
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Phew. I've felt dreadful looking into my inbox lately, because I really don't want to see the gore image.
I wonder if we could get an option in account settings to restrict who can DM you. Like the options could be everyone, nobody, and a setting where someone can send you a request but not any images unless you accept the request. I think that this would be a good feature if this kind of spam gets more common, and prevent things like unsolicted nudes or gore.
That will have to come from the lemmy devs. I'm hoping that they're working on something like that given the scale of the issue, but not being involved with the lemmy dev team, I don't know what the plans are
Lemmy 0.19.11 disables picture rendering in DMs
Dont render images in private message (#3043)
That's part way there, but it doesn't stop the text DM spam, nor does it actually remove the NSFL content
Indeed, but at least it's an improvement
Thank you Kaity <3
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thank you for doing this <3 you're a very good person.
I guess things were too good to be true... ❤️ Thank you for all the good work y'all do!
Those poor dungeon masters
I'm just trying to play a game 😭
i have lost my precious message from nicole, the fediverse chick! my life won't ever be the same.
thank you for your efforts :)
If you say "Thank you Kaity" within 24 hours of seeing this post you will be blessed with good vibes and no spam.
Thank you Kaity!
is upvoting your comment enough? asking for a friend ...
This is a secret so be sure not to tell anyone else, but you'll be blessed with good vibes and no spam regardless of if you say the magic words or not !
Thank you Kaity!
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from katy to kaity, thank you! :3
i hope 1.0 has more controls over who can send you messages
Speaking of which, is there any way to delete DMs in Voyager? The only options I see are user info, or block.
No, deleting DMs is a mod thing. In this case, we're doing it directly from the database
I never realized how easy that would be to abuse. I’m really surprised Lemmy doesn’t have an option to let users delete DMs
I'm hoping that it's in the works
I don't know if it is still true but I was told this is a Lemmy thing and that only admins could delete DMs.
meh. I would prefer just deleting archiving and having various views for myself.
Understood, but at the moment, you can't even do that because you can't delete DMs through the user interface or set controls on who can send you DMs. Until we get options in lemmy that let people take control of their own approach to spam DMs, this is the best we can do, because unfortunately, "do nothing" just means spam impacts everyone, and given the nature of some of that spam, that's not an option.
Edit - I just noticed you're not a blahaj lemmy user, so this won't impact you in any way. It's specific to users of this instance
Since you’re on piefed it won’t affect you