Today sure has one with a tool bag posing anti trans stuff and non tagged nsfw posts.

Not seeing it out here in the .world instance, but then again I'm not engaging with trans, autism, or furry communities as much as I think that you are. Sounds as though you've caught a homophobe troll's attention, owing to the KYS & astroturfing DM, and false reporting. Bounce this upstairs to your instance's mods, and let others know who they are.

Friend, with all due respect, there are some people here who belong in a hospital. Mental illness.

Im not sure about the porn spam, but the abusive dm is probably from the Feddit.org admin acussing you of being an astrosurfer https://lemmy.zip/post/58901499/24578452 @Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I think this may depend on the instance you're on. The "trans" spam bot hit up my sister's account but she's on fedia/mbin. I haven't noticed the other abuses per se to be like. Rampant or anything.

But I also don't check DM's.

No. I blocked all the anime, furry, porn, and any aggressive subs that consistently read like screaming. If that matters, maybe do the same.

I only had a DM once but never happened again,, maybe a troll targeted you? The dm, btw

Nope, haven't noticed. I do see a lot of spam removed whenever I look at the mod log though. Some level of spam is always to be expected.

Not spam per se, but there does seem to be a sharp uptick in brand new accounts making tons of posts and getting banned. It seems every day I see numerous posts made by users that are already banned by whatever community they posted in (by the time I see them.) Mods must be working overtime.

I’ve been here for a couple of years now and have never gotten anything like that. I even occasionally ban people (which I can’t imagine they are too happy about). 🤷‍♂️

Seen two spam comments today.

I have everything sorted by new though and they were gone shortly after reporting.

Oh, they're 10 and learned reddit terms.

It happens. A very highly intelligent user will occasionally post something in a lot of communities and gets a rise out of downvotes, annoyed comments, and blocks. It's annoying but that is often the nature of the internet. Report, block, and move on.

It's only the very highly intelligent users who do this. So it doesn't happen a lot.

Don't engage with anybody you don't know well on DMs. And if some other very highly intelligent person goes to the effort of sending you abuse via DM, take pride that you really got under their skin. Ignore it if you can.

No but maybe you tell me where all this porn spam is active so I can stay away from it.

I saw it earlier. Also got spammed by an asshole telling me to kill myself. Lemmy is going to shit these days. I'm thinking about going back to Reddit, or digg. At least they don't have shit like this there. Spam like this gets squashed quickly there. /s