I don't have a responsibility to do anything. This isn't my issue and you can't force me to care.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I can't tell if this is parody.
Nope. This is a huge accessibility fail. Any instance that has captcha enabled is locking out anyone even slightly low vision. Everyone should be manually approving all applications. It keeps instances small, and ensures that the fediverse remains distributed. Once we start having a spam problem, we should all just be defederating every instance that offers open registration; make a script to scan for it, and update the blocklist. Nobody should be running that way. If you are, not only are you allowing spam, you're also probably allowing humans who are engaged in ban evasion and other bad things. All posts and comments that come from your instance are in some small part your responsibility. Be at least vaguely aware of who your users are. If you ban one, and you run open registration, how do you intend to make sure they're not the user you just banned, signing up with another email address? We're not big tech, so we don't have the kinds of tools (IP reputation lists, lists of VPN IP addresses, etc) to fight ban evasion in any kind of automated way.
Everyone should be manually approving all applications
And everyone should pay their mods for their time? I can get behind that. Not sure how successful a paid service would be in replacing a free one tho...
Nobody should be running that way. If you are, not only are you allowing spam, you're also probably allowing humans who are engaged in ban evasion and other bad things.
Other bad things like slippery slope fallacies?
how do you intend to make sure they're not the user you just banned, signing up with another email address?
Wait, what solution are you suggesting? Did your instance involve a background check or something? I don't want to use lemmy if it means I have to dox myself.
We're not big tech, so we don't have the kinds of tools (IP reputation lists, lists of VPN IP addresses, etc) to fight ban evasion in any kind of automated way.
Also a leap in logic. Domain providers (ex. Cloudflare) regularly offer these services very affordably. Kind of ironic that you believe a completely digital, federated message board in this day and age can't leverage computers to run it. This feels like an argument someone made on a Usenet forum in 1990.
I use audio captcha regularly? Which major implementations don't support audio captchas?