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[Jupith]

This is basically what membership screening manual approval is, if you have a role you can interact, if you don't then you can't, unless a guild admin explicitly "accepts" you into the guild, it was a great tool in combatting spam, basically stopped bots dead in their tracks. However.. it's development was indefinitely paused today. lol

[Jupith]

As i said it was bypassed by a role, you could enable this, and just have bots grant roles for users you deem as "legit" ones that don't get granted a role by your bot are left in a state where they cannot DM members

[TheKing-OfTime]

In recent months, discord has dramatically improved spam protection and continues to do so. For example, now a new DM with an unknown user starts with a warning about possible spam. Users can also be marked as spammers by discord, and their messages will be automatically hidden. In addition, there are new methods of protection that have not yet come out. Unfortunately, your solution will cause more inconvenience not to selfbots but to ordinary users, so I doubt that something like this will be added at the moment.

[TheKing-OfTime]

It seems to me that this does not correspond to the concept of servers. So it turns out that the server administration will be able to manage channels (DMs) to which it simply has nothing to do. This can greatly complicate communication outside the server for ordinary users on some very large servers. It seems to me that the current course of development of anti-spam systems is more optimal.


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[i0bs]

There are already countermeasures offered to server moderation teams to handle this. There's moderation bots, membership screening, privacy levels per user for DMs, a built-in report spam feature and likely others I'm forgetting. Saying that this seems likely easy to fix feels somewhat dismissive of Discord's latest efforts to combat spam and unwanted accounts like self bots. Some servers even have a captcha verification step upon invitation.

[Skye-31]

membership screening does not protect users from DM's

This is incorrect - they are unable to DM users from that server until they have passed screening

[Jupith]

It's not client only, it is enforced server side, but it's 1/2 requests for selfbots to pass ordinary screening.

[Le0Developer]

I personally set the moderation level to "High" (Must also be a member on this server for longer than 10 minutes) and then have a bot kick untrusted accounts after 8 minutes.

You could also drop the discord invite system completely: remove all invites and create invite permissions and then use a bot with the guilds.join scope to add trusted users to your server.