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[–] T156 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a double-edged sword. Just because it doesn't work perfectly doesn't mean it doesn't work.

To a spammer, building something with the ability to break a captcha is more expensive than something that cannot, whether in terms of development time, or resource demands.

We saw with a few Lemmy instances that they're still good at protecting instances from bots and bot signups. Removing captchas entirely means erasing that barrier of entry that keeps a lot of bots out, and might cause more problems than it fixes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Problem is this assumes that everyone has to build their own captcha solver. It's definitely a bare minimum standard barrier to entry, but it's really not a sustainable solution to begin with.