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Disable DMs?
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Has Nicole been trying to cheat on me again?
But seriously, sometimes these come from random instances besides the one you've mentioned and I can't see how you could block them outside of playing whack-a-mole due to the nature of how the Fediverse....works.
Maybe instance admins could implement some kinda cool off feature before being able to DM another user, maybe the Lemmy devs could like you're requesting outright allow you to block DM's. Thing is, the spammers then adapt and use other methods to desperately try to get you biting their shite.
I had another yesterday
https://files.catbox.moe/lojl62.jpg
that didn't show up until I clicked the [obj] placeholder in Boost and eventually did the risky click shit even thou it could've been CSAM 🤬
Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about. Getting random CSAM, or Gore, or some f'ed up stuff like that. Images should at the bare minimum come censored before clicking.
I didn't even have the option to click any placeholders, it just automatically loads the whole thing (but maybe its just the front-end I'm using).
I hear ya.
But like I say the Fediverse is a bit different to reddit and means someone from a freshly made/hosted instance can straight up send you "bad things" in a comment thread nevermind a DM unless the Instance admins have de-federated from a spam(my)/unmoderated instance.
I've been putting off the invite to help the admins of my Instance since I'm a complete idiot at the best of times, but I do think we need more people flagging / tagging / sharing / mass banning them.
Good luck and have fun with the risky clicks ;)
Well, would you say Boost blocks images by default? Because Thunder (the front end I'm using) doesn't.
I think it's actually my instance not loading "SD" images (sometimes not initially, sometimes, straight away?) and it's not until I click the "HD" button does it actually load images like the above?
My instance thou is mainly run by a couple of guy who are a little busy IRL and it might be playing a part in what happened above since Nicole generally gets through most of the time.
Bad, Nicole 🫢