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.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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    And this is why it is especially important that instances upgrade to 0.19.11 ASAP since that version both offers DM removal when banning users with content removal, and also hides images from being rendered in DMs. Unfortunately a vast majority of instances are on 0.19.9 or earlier.

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    10 days ago

    Man…I got annoyed at the Nicole stuff. But I always figured whoever it was, it wasn’t her. I figured she was just some adult webcam “actress” that doesn’t even know Lemmy exists. And someone was using her image to do this.

    Now she’s dead? How do we confirm this? Do we call the Toronto police? What would we even tell them?

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    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.

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    This is why I never check my DMs. 99% of the time they’re just used to harass and threaten people.

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      10 days ago

      Would threatening with a good time be counted as a threat or harassment? 🤔

      edit: this was a joke unrelated to the topic at hand. I see how this could be construed as not taking the “Nicole” DMs seriously, so I apologise.

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        10 days ago

        Go to your local precinct and threaten the officers with a good time and let us know how they react.

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    9 days ago

    Thus begins the Nicpocalypse, the last stage of inquisitional censorship before botspam ascends into a state of divine memedom. In doing so, Nicole joins the first progenitor of the Dark Meme pantheon in his eternal dance across the interwebs, a handmaiden to his horrid everpresent jiggle…

    We’re watching history unfold. I kinda wish we weren’t…

    EDIT: You do realize that every downvote makes the Dark Lord dance harder, don’t you?