• jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 hours ago

    A simple thing that may help a lot is for all new accounts to be flagged as bots, requiring opt out of the status for normal users. It’s a small thing, but any barrier is one more step a bot farm has to overcome.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      I subscribed to the arch gitlab last week and there was a 12 step identification process that was completely ridiculous. It’s clear 99.99% of users will just give up.