The ironic thing is that one of the Lemmy devs wanted to remove captchas entirely because they were “useless”. He doesn’t get that one barrier is always better than no barrier at all, and that even if OCR can easily break captchas, creating a bot will start costing more and that’s the whole point of anti-spam approaches.
FYI this is mostly bot accounts. They are mostly confined to isolated servers that didn’t have Captcha enabled.
I think we only have like 250k real accounts. Granted, we had less than 50k 2 weeks ago, but don’t be fooled into thinking we already made it.
Please try to get the word out people, we need to get bigger before this whole fiasco blows over.
The ironic thing is that one of the Lemmy devs wanted to remove captchas entirely because they were “useless”. He doesn’t get that one barrier is always better than no barrier at all, and that even if OCR can easily break captchas, creating a bot will start costing more and that’s the whole point of anti-spam approaches.