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Transcription: picture is a screenshot of a user inbox page with a new message containing a photo of a woman with dark hair. The message reads "Hi I am Nicole but you can call me the Fediverse chick". There's more text but this is very obviously a bot attempting to get people to join a particular server.

On a side note: I can't delete this message as I get an error about dms not being available. I've blocked the bot already. Does programming.dev support dm's?

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[–] neatchee 5 points 1 day ago

On Mastodon at least there is a mod available to add regex-based rejection patterns. We added the identifier from the discord link to our reject pattern and that seems to have stopped this particular spammer from getting at our users.

Maybe there's something similar for other fedi services