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What's stopping spammers/scammers/bots to do the same thing?
Usually sites will blacklist all temp providers, lemmy doesn't seem to care. The only reason we don't look overrun with bots now is that they've gotten a lot better and appearing human in the last year
But yeah, mods and admins only give lip service to dealing with bots, as per usual
"You get what you pay for.", evidence #103.
Nothing at all. That's why we have captchas.
What makes you think that captchas are effective against spammers signing up to the service?
They raise the barrier of entry for creating spam accounts from "make a bunch of API calls" to "set up some kind of AI captcha solver/pay someone in India to do it for you." It doesn't stop spammers, but it makes it harder for them.