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No I am saying the this bot seems to specifically look for instances without captcha and doesn't even try others. Low hanging fruits and all that. If all admins enable captchas the bot would just switch to those and circumvent the cheap captcha that is currently implemented in Lemmy.
So the solution is to force everyone to be low hanging fruit in the meantime?
Look, I get where everyone is going in terms of improvements, but to remove an already working solution and leaving folks exposed in the meantime is not how we should be rolling improvements.
See my other comment. Lemmy already implements other ways to prevent this from happening that are much more effective.
Email validation works only until my domain get's blacklisted...
Manual registration only works up until a certain size...
What other effective solution shall I consider? Those aren't very effective to me.
If you reach a size where manual approval doesn't work anymore you should seriously consider closing registration completely or increase the size of your admin team.