Stux from geddit.social think that the massive recent wave of ~100k new Lemmy accounts is likely mostly spammers. Captchas suck, but are they better than the alternative?
Stux from geddit.social think that the massive recent wave of ~100k new Lemmy accounts is likely mostly spammers. Captchas suck, but are they better than the alternative?
It’s always been up to instance admins to decide for themselves between the tradeoff of creating manual signup friction in order to reduce spam, or remove it in order to quickly scale for more users. This might remove a tool for now, but I think more tools will be added as alternatives.