Just a heads up to those who host. Piefed has been doing some work to keep the sanity of their admins. I'm thinking of removing dms from my instances just because of all this.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I'm strongly in favor of removing DMs on all platforms and asking users to add direct contact info to their user profiles. Email, chat apps, whatever.

It's been fairly obvious that there were additional spam mitigations needed in the Fediverse, and especially Lemmy. I mean what's to prevent a bad actor from spinning up thousands of accounts on various servers and using them to manipulate votes and spam messages?

I'm afraid if anyone decided to do that that ActivityPub is inherently flawed in such a way that there would be no way to prevent it.

Nicole is, in a way, doing the Fediverse a favor.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah if someone needs to reach me via mastodon/lemmy/etc....they can take their time to use other platforms. DMs without any spam detection is a recipe for disaster. As is the case for any messaging in the last 30 years.

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