The wonderful @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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!
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
https://lemmy.ml/post/28296989
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
That is very true!
I have received an image in my dms from PD 0.19.5
https://programming.dev/ updated to 0.19.11 today
That’s fabulous news!
@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com the future generations have been saved from the federation pains!