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.

  • notexecutiveOPEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    That’s great and all but I’d rather not see poop in my inbox. :(

    • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • notexecutiveOPEnglish
        1·
        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

        • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • notexecutiveOPEnglish
            2·
            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.

            • TauZero@mander.xyzEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              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.

              • notexecutiveOPEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Ah… i was under the impression this kind of change would cascade to other federations

                • TauZero@mander.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I’ve tested it and the original user does have the option to delete the PM, and it does disappear from your mailbox even if the user is blocked. But you say they were already banned. If it was a lemmy.world user, then there is probably some way that lemmy.world admins can manually take over that account and delete the message from the fediverse, but the message you are seeing is the local sh.itjust.works copy, so sh.itjust.works admins should have the power to delete it even if lemmy.world falls into a black hole.