### What happened? Due to the recent developments, I have decided to make this
community moderator-only. There has been a mass spam attack involving gore and
nudity. This is now a very serious situation and it is clear that something has
to be done to stop this from happening. The new messages might be from a
different, psychopathic spammer. ### What we decided to do about it To have
better control of this situation, we decided to lock down the community, except
for the comment section on this very post. (Please let me know if I’ve missed a
post) ### Rules - Please refrain to further spread the newest spam image,
especially uncensored versions of it. - The “It’s my girlfriend!”-joke is long
gone. Be respectful, stop using it. ### Going forward Our main goal now is to
stop the spread of spam on Lemmy. This seems like a major problem in Lemmy’s
concept, so we need to work together to create a working solution to the spam
and potential defacing of users.
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.
That’s pretty rough. I hope Lemmy webclient and app developers will make some changes to the way images are handled in DMs based on these events. Just don’t load images in DMs until you click a button or something.
Tesseract did that a couple releases ago. All images in DMs are disabled by default and you have to hit a switch to show them (like how email clients work when you have images disabled.). Not sure if others have done similar, but that feature was a direct result of this (before it took a dark turn).
That’s pretty rough. I hope Lemmy webclient and app developers will make some changes to the way images are handled in DMs based on these events. Just don’t load images in DMs until you click a button or something.
They already did, in 0.19.11
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11
Thanks for the headsup. That makes my notification icon feel a lot less risky to click 😅
Though it’s client-specific and nobody uses lemmy-ui
I do
Tesseract did that a couple releases ago. All images in DMs are disabled by default and you have to hit a switch to show them (like how email clients work when you have images disabled.). Not sure if others have done similar, but that feature was a direct result of this (before it took a dark turn).