I’m not 100% sure how to check these things but have they simply defederated from your instance? Maybe to garner weight in posts etc?
And while I ain’t digging too much because one I’m now lazy and two can’t be arsed creating drama, but did flag this user who’s all over my feed
I hear ya.
But like I say the Fediverse is a bit different to reddit and means someone from a freshly made/hosted instance can straight up send you “bad things” in a comment thread nevermind a DM unless the Instance admins have de-federated from a spam(my)/unmoderated instance.
I’ve been putting off the invite to help the admins of my Instance since I’m a complete idiot at the best of times, but I do think we need more people flagging / tagging / sharing / mass banning them.
Good luck and have fun with the risky clicks ;)
Has Nicole been trying to cheat on me again?
But seriously, sometimes these come from random instances besides the one you’ve mentioned and I can’t see how you could block them outside of playing whack-a-mole due to the nature of how the Fediverse…works.
Maybe instance admins could implement some kinda cool off feature before being able to DM another user, maybe the Lemmy devs could like you’re requesting outright allow you to block DM’s. Thing is, the spammers then adapt and use other methods to desperately try to get you biting their shite.
I had another yesterday
https://files.catbox.moe/lojl62.jpg
that didn’t show up until I clicked the [obj] placeholder in Boost and eventually did the risky click shit even thou it could’ve been CSAM 🤬
One of my most favourite things was watching the wizards over in r/BotDefense killing shitbots enmass via the open API weddit had until spez got even more greedy.
I know it’s not directly tied to what you’re asking via the UI, but I am interested in how you could help some of those excellent bot hunters of day gone yonder.
<3