### 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.
This is why I never check my DMs. 99% of the time they’re just used to harass and threaten people.
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.
Go to your local precinct and threaten the officers with a good time and let us know how they react.