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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 06:45:49 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   New spam accounts are getting a bit out of hand.... I may need to either boost the CAPTCHA difficulty significantly or lock down new signups

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     George Budd (gbudd@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 06:56:49 JST George Budd

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     @freemo Your CAPTCHA should require that they write in LaTeX

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 06:57:28 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @Gbudd hahaha that would work :)

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     NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U (admitswrongifproven@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:10:24 JST NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U

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     @freemo Is there any other significant characteristic? For example, do the spam accounts come from the same ip?

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:21:16 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U

     @admitsWrongIfProven Nothing I can find sadly

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     NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U (admitswrongifproven@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:27:21 JST NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U

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     @freemo What order of magnitude are we talking? A few a day, or heavy spam like many per second?

     Silly thought on the side: How many of those accounts are sandwiches of some description?

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:30:48 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @admitsWrongIfProven just a few a day. The issue isnt so much the quantity but rather the lag time. I sometimes dont see it and clean it up for 24 hours by which point it has already spammed the entire fediverse and removing it doesnt really do much

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     NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U (admitswrongifproven@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:35:39 JST NOS :facebook: 🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U

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     @freemo That is a tricky problem, and if someone buys some cheap capcha solving people possibly not fixable without manual steps ("have 1 human interaction before posting is allowed").

     What's frightening here is that this concerns the whole internet as far as it's free.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 07:36:27 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @admitsWrongIfProven There are tons of better ways to solve it than a captcha... those sadly require time investment to code up. But even when i added the captcha a probationary period seemed the better move for sure.

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     Free Peoples Free Press (freepeoplesfreepress@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 11:27:40 JST Free Peoples Free Press

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     Dear Dr. Freemo: Sounds really serious! Is this the result of Artificial Intelligence Bots?

     Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesFreePress News

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     Rado1 (rado1@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 19:14:17 JST Rado1

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     @freemo simple math question (basic school level) will reject bots and unwanted people as well :)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 02:38:41 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @Rado1 The math question type captcha has been easier to circumvent than traditional ones for a long time now.

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     :sticker_prick: (em@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 10:28:43 JST :sticker_prick:

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     @freemo Turn on manually review to confirm an account.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 05:13:59 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @em yea thats an option too of course