The ironic thing is that one of the Lemmy devs wanted to remove captchas entirely because they were "useless". He doesn't get that one barrier is always better than no barrier at all, and that even if OCR can easily break captchas, creating a bot will start costing more and that's the whole point of anti-spam approaches.
Yeah, it's the fallacy of letting perfect be the enemy of good. It can stop 90% of bots (made up that number) but because it doesn't stop 100%, it's not worth doing?
What's also weird is that the Lemmy dev was pushing for a different form of captcha that definitely doesn't stop bots either (just is more niche and requires bots to expend a frankly trivial amount of extra processing power)!
there need be someone smarter than me, create website called "frontpage of the internet" that aggregate and presented all the community posting of the lemmy+kbin fediverse instances in one place
Exactly! I was mostly a lurker on reddit but I'm trying to engage with content way more than I did so that I can help build these platforms and make them more enticing.