Spam (like the torrent of cryptoscamspam lots of people got this morning) has been very rare for me here (and dealt with quickly), but I've noticed that almost all of the spam I've gotten has been via Mastodon's DM feature.
I really wish there was a way to turn DMs off or at least restrict them to people I follow. Control over incoming DMs was a thing Twitter did better than here.
@mattblaze I thought that was the intent, but I suppose that my use case is very different than yours.
Blackholing unwanted messages is desirable if you want/need to avoid giving harassers feedback that they can use to harass you more effectively
I suppose there are reasons someone would want block/reject as opposed to block/blackhole
@mattblaze @RandomDamage you know, after giving it some thought, I think I do see your point on this issue.
There would be value in providing the ability for a user to send a Reject object in response to a Create or Announce object (message, boost respectively), and for servers to appropriately respond to such objects by alerting their respective recipients to that Reject.
The standard states that the semantic of how to handle a Reject is different depending on what it's in response to, but only calls out specific behavior with regards to the Follow object.
Matt Blaze
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