this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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NRDLemmI will require captcha until further notice. (lemmy.nrd.li)
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Apparently Lemmy's user creation API is wide open, making it trivial to make accounts en-masse. This should not be a huge issue as this instance requires an application to be filled out to create an account.

To reduce likelihood of such accounts being made and overwhelming my ability to review applications captcha will be enabled until this issue is fixed. The difficulty is currently set to "Medium", which may be adjusted.

I am guessing this will be fixed in the upcoming 0.18 update which has several significant changes, some of which may require some downtime to apply. Details of what that update entails are currently not clear, including the timeline for its release.

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