Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to disable private messages that are sent to you with images in them. I was sent something…unsettling (it was a troll message), and I just want to avoid it all together. I really don’t want images in my private messages,* especially if I cannot delete them from my inbox.*

Thanks.

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    1 year ago

    Ha! We are reinventing email insecurity all over again. Hotlinked images can also be used to reveal your IP, which can be geolocated to your city or neighborhood.

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        Report it if you haven’t already. I don’t think there’s a setting you can use to prevent it right now. If you feel passionate enough about it, you could file a GitHub issue for the Lemmy project highlighting that images in DMs can be used for undeletable harassment and stalking to identify IP addresses and geolocate individuals.

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          1 year ago

          I did report it but, there really should be a delete button (at least delete for me).

          Ill make an issue ticket if its not a thing

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            Yeah, I’m addressing the current actual state, not the desired state. The only other thing I can think that might achieve a similar result to deletion is blocking the user. I haven’t blocked anyone, but that might hide the reply (it should IMO). Not sure I’d you want to go that drastic in this case.

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              1 year ago

              Blocking does not hide the inbox message already sent.

              Their account is banned already but the messages still remain.

              I dont care if the messages remain on backend, i just dont want it there for me.

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                Can confirm that blocking a user does not hide past messages.

                While we are waiting on github feature requests, you’d need to contact sh.itjust.works admins (heh) and ask them to delete the message from the database manually. They would need to learn how to do that eventually anyway for when someone uploads something literally illegal. This is a support forum for lemmy.world specifically, not lemmy in general.