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It's been a good week now since I have had to deal with any people receiving DM spam. I don't want to jinx it, but we may have weathered that particular storm.
If you miss it I could send a few your way.
Was it that Nicole thing like in World?
Seeing that I kind of wish I could shut my DMs or whitelist. It looked creepy as
Yep. With the generous help from the admin at lemmy.ca sharing his code, I implemented a few layers of defense that blocked the bulk of the DMs. It got to the point where the spam would just be an image (because of our spam filters). That was harder to block and I'm still not sure I managed it, but the DMs have stopped.
Thanks for all you do, it is much appreciated o7