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DM Spam (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The wonderful @[email protected] has developed a script to help deal with DM spam.

With this script, when a user is permabanned, DMs sent from the account in the previous 24 hours will automatically be marked as deleted.

We have set the time to 24 hours to ensure that the majority of pre-existing (non spam) DMs are preserved in the event of an account being banned. That being said, if you lose a DM to this script that you need recovered, please reach out to myself or Kaity, and we can restore it manually for you!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

i have lost my precious message from nicole, the fediverse chick! my life won't ever be the same.

thank you for your efforts :)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity! <3

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Thank you Kaity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Thank you Kaity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is upvoting your comment enough? asking for a friend ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lemmy 0.19.11 disables picture rendering in DMs

Dont render images in private message (#3043)

https://lemmy.ml/post/28296989

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's part way there, but it doesn't stop the text DM spam, nor does it actually remove the NSFL content

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indeed, but at least it's an improvement

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That is very true!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have received an image in my dms from PD 0.19.5

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That’s fabulous news!

@[email protected] the future generations have been saved from the federation pains!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone know why I can't report the dms? I just got one and it said "couldn't create report". The user wasn't banned yet, I checked the profile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Something is broken with reporting DMs. I'm hoping it will be fixed when we upgrade. If not, we'll have to go digging to see what's causing the problem

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

thank you for doing this <3 you're a very good person.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

from katy to kaity, thank you! :3

i hope 1.0 has more controls over who can send you messages

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity <3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thank you for that ^w^

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I guess things were too good to be true... ❤️ Thank you for all the good work y'all do!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you Kaity!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those poor dungeon masters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm just trying to play a game 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Speaking of which, is there any way to delete DMs in Voyager? The only options I see are user info, or block.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, deleting DMs is a mod thing. In this case, we're doing it directly from the database

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm hoping that it's in the works

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

meh. I would prefer just deleting archiving and having various views for myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Since you’re on piefed it won’t affect you