Good news everyone! Since I have been informed that the appropriate response to a brigade of GIFS OF PEOPLE DEFECATING IN MY PMs is to "block the offending users", I am now going to be that user

asparagus9001@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – -6 points –

Hope you all enjoy the early-2000s shock images opened in your PMs with no warning.

Just remember - if you have a problem with it, if you don't like the content I'm sharing with the world - all you have to do is just block me!

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Probably the best solution would just be a client setting to automatically embed images or not. Banning people like that is just a whack-a-mole game. And nuking an instance over a few bad actors is a good way to harm the fediverse as a whole if done too liberally.