• AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really appreciate the work that you’re doing but…

    Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them.

    What the hell? Another bad default where newbies will continue to launch instances attracting 10k+ bot signups per day and new users will keep getting disgusted by Lemmy if they land on one of those spammy instances. Making captchas a default should have been a priority and I’m sure no one would have complained if the 0.18 release was postponed to make that happen.

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      1 year ago

      The feed desperately needed a fix, so I’m glad they pushed it out. But agreed, they should be prioritizing methods to reduce spam and bots in the next release, even if they need to push out a relatively feature-sparse version first

    • leo vriska@l.60228.dev
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      1 year ago

      I definitely would’ve… it was basically impossible to subscribe to communities on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml from smaller instances before 0.18.0, and after lemmy.ml updated that’s no longer an issue.