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New spam accounts are getting a bit out of hand.... I may need to either boost the CAPTCHA difficulty significantly or lock down new signups
@Gbudd hahaha that would work :)
@freemo Is there any other significant characteristic? For example, do the spam accounts come from the same ip?
@admitsWrongIfProven Nothing I can find sadly
@freemo What order of magnitude are we talking? A few a day, or heavy spam like many per second?
Silly thought on the side: How many of those accounts are sandwiches of some description?
@admitsWrongIfProven just a few a day. The issue isnt so much the quantity but rather the lag time. I sometimes dont see it and clean it up for 24 hours by which point it has already spammed the entire fediverse and removing it doesnt really do much
@freemo That is a tricky problem, and if someone buys some cheap capcha solving people possibly not fixable without manual steps ("have 1 human interaction before posting is allowed").
What's frightening here is that this concerns the whole internet as far as it's free.
@admitsWrongIfProven There are tons of better ways to solve it than a captcha... those sadly require time investment to code up. But even when i added the captcha a probationary period seemed the better move for sure.
@freemo simple math question (basic school level) will reject bots and unwanted people as well :)
@Rado1 The math question type captcha has been easier to circumvent than traditional ones for a long time now.
@freemo Turn on manually review to confirm an account.
@em yea thats an option too of course
@freemo Your CAPTCHA should require that they write in LaTeX <grin>