What action are we taking to protect against spam?

So far, we have a captcha on account creation now and it seems to be working (from what I've seen, anyway)

It'll be a tough balancing act though. Relatively frictionless sign-up has been great for us, and anything that deals with bots will also affect that. Whatever else we may end up doing will need to be carefully considered.

Great question, great read. Thanks for posting this.

Personally, I think adding a recaptcha and possibly a recovery email are reasonable to add to sign in.

When I made my account this past weekend, it was refreshing to only need a username and password, but it's also way too easy to abuse.

Jerry seems like he's still just trying to put out fires and get fedia running smoothly, it appears like we're almost there, and then I can only assume he'll be able to talk big picture at that point.

Always heavenly quality items +5% for folks working against spam

I think obviously botted instances that aren't doing anything about it should be defederated. It can only cause harm to communities that allow those bots to interact with them.

Does sh.itjust.works have captcha and email verification enabled? That and defederating from the infested instances seems like the only things that can be done at this point.