undefined> You’re going to a Burning Man-style event and you don’t want to poop on June 25th because it’s Anne Frank’s birthday and in your pursuit to become the true Hide & Seek Champion you think it would be best/hilarious to “Anne Frank” your poop for three days
Congratulations, you’re the first person in the world to use that sentence.
No shit! Good that you’re participating, don’t let that account go to waste.
Good luck on your medieval battle reënactment or orgy.
Could be both at once.
You have some real talent there, don’t let it go to waste.
This whole thread is hilarious, especially because I regularly go 5-7 days. Longer if I am traveling. I even take fiber!
That sounds unlikely, you must be full of shit.
If it’s true, well… you must be full of shit.
shitposting
C’mon read the whole thing man, its a no-shit post.
Beehaw got their knickers in a twist because of some spammers, back when lemmy.world and shitjustworks had… maybe 30,000 registered users in total. The solution there was adding more moderators. You don’t chop your leg off because you got a few papercuts.
If you look at the volume of bots (some instances went from hundreds of users to >12,000 overnight), that’s potential for worry. There’s ~500,000 bot accounts sitting out there waiting to be activated. No amount of moderators can block that fast enough, and that’s when de-federation should be considered.
You’re right that captchas can be bypassed, but I disagree that they’re useless.
Do you lock your house? Are you aware that most locks can be picked and windows can be smashed?
captchas can be defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless - they increase the level of friction required to automate malicious activity. Maybe not a lot, but along with other measures, it may make it tricky enough to circumvent that it discourages a good percentage of bot spammers. It’s the “Swiss cheese” model of security.
Registration applications stop bots, but it also stops legitimate users. I almost didn’t get onto the fediverse because of registration applications. I filled out applications at lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, and then forgot about it. Two days later, I got reminded of the fediverse, and luckily I found this instance that didn’t require some sort of application to join.
Haven’t you heard of the “Swiss cheese” model of security?
The best way to ensure your server is protected is to unplug it from the Internet and put it in an EMF-shielded Faraday cage.
There’s always a tradeoff between security, usability and cost.
captchas can be defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless - they increase the level of friction required to automate malicious activity. Maybe not a lot, but along with other measures, it may make it tricky enough to circumvent that it discourages a good percentage of bot spammers.
You nearly made me spit out the water in my mouth. Thanks.
I don’t have anything to add, I’m just planting my flag here so I can say I was here at the beginnings of lemmylore.
Here, have a cat picture as an offering:
But what is it made of?