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Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 23 🎩 April 2025

Nath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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.

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melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Was it that Nicole thing?

I kind of wish I could shut my DMs or whitelist. That looked creepy as

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- Nath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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 images have stopped.
  
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  - melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks for all you do, it is much appreciated o7
    
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Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you miss it I could send a few your way.

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