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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 04:13:18 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   Do you want to automatically block DMs from strangers on Mastodon?

   1. Log onto your server's website
   2. Go to ⚙️ Preferences
   3. Click Notifications (on the mobile website click ☰ and then Notifications)
   4. Tick "Block direct messages from people you don't follow"
   5. Click "Save changes"

   If you change your mind, do the same thing again but untick the box and save changes.

   #FediTips #MastoTips #Mastodon

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 05:04:13 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • David Leeuwestein

     @dd @letsbekind2

     Fair enough points! I've edited the original post to make this clear.

   • David Leeuwestein (dd@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 05:04:14 JST David Leeuwestein

     in reply to

     @feditips it’s imho important to know that afaik the people sending a dm are not notified about the block. So it’s probably a good idea to add an info about not accepting dms to the bio.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 05:53:55 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

     @amberage

     Another excellent point! 👍

   • Mx Amber Alex (she/it) (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 05:53:56 JST Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

     in reply to

     @feditips with how "DMs" are (technically and in practice) more like very private posts, it might be relevant to consider this also blocks things such as one-on-one replies to public posts, etc.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 07:42:38 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Bluabirdo

     @Bluabirdo

     Hopefully this post may jog people's memory in case they want to switch it back on?

   • Bluabirdo (bluabirdo@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 07:42:40 JST Bluabirdo

     in reply to

     @feditips I would bet that many users reject private messages. Because “block DMs from strangers” was the top advice during the waves of crypto spam that occurred last May. By now we've all forgotten that we changed this setting. And, as already pointed out, the senders are not notified about this. 😕

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 14:27:57 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Sunil

     @sunil

     Mastodon servers all use the same API, but not all the settings are accessible through the API, so you'll sometimes have to access the web interface to do certain things.

   • Sunil (sunil@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 14:27:58 JST Sunil

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     @feditips Why can’t these be done through app itself? If every server supports it then it got to be same API across servers.