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Is there a possibility to block DMs for non-followers? I'm fed up with these spam waves via #DM. Couldn't find anything.
I say *block* not mute!

@FediTips

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This entry was edited (2 months ago)
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg

@Petra van Cronenburg Not as of now. As far as I know this is one of the crucial weaknesses still unaddressed in ActivityPub in general. 🙄
@Fedi.Tips
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg

@Petra van Cronenburg Yes. It's also repeated point of criticism because other open networks such as Friendica, Diaspora or Hubzilla basically do quite a bit better here and have done so for a while now. This seems one of these features for which it's rather hard to understand how they still can be missing, despite all technical difficulties in doing these right.
@Fedi.Tips
in reply to Kristian

Friendica still lacks a proper moderation system unfortunately:

github.com/friendica/friendica…

If they can implement this, I would be promoting Friendica a lot more as it's really cool 🙂

in reply to Petra van Cronenburg

By block, do you mean something where the sender would not be able to send a DM to that person at all?
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