There might be a bit more downtime during the next few days as I make a few changes to the way I do backups. It should only be a few minutes though.
Lastly, I'd like to introduce @Gaen@ani.social - a kind of AutoMod that should take care of spam. If you've been on Lemmy for a long time already, Gaen shouldn't remove your posts/comments or ban you. If you think Gaen made a mistake, you can send me an email: help@ani.social.
Occasionally it might send you messages if you've forgotten to mark a post as NSFW, but I'm still testing this. I'm also looking into a way to remove the "Nicole spam" with her.
Gaen is named after Gaen Izuko from the Monogatari Series because she claims to "know everything".
I’m also looking into a way to remove the “Nicole spam” with her.
@rikka@ani.social just got Nicole'd for the first time the other day...and then dutifully replied to her, telling her the proper way to request a discussion thread.
I didn't realize until this that it is impossible to delete pm's in lemmy. It seems like a huge oversight to me. Additionally, it would be great if there were more pm controls, like blocking them by default or something like that. I did see that piefed made an issue to add it as a result of this Nicole business (piefed also let me delete the Nicole spam I got).
@rikka@ani.social just got Nicole’d for the first time the other day…and then dutifully replied to her, telling her the proper way to request a discussion thread.
That's actually funny lol.
But yeah, I was surprised that banning + deleting user submissions doesn't remove their private messages as well. Hopefully that gets fixed soon. Good to hear that PieFed is quick to respond to this.