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Personally, I find it reasonably amusing that defending an open source, arguably collectivist project requires appeals to individualism.
"You can build it" "Just defederate" "It's the instance owner's responsibility" "You can do X for your instance, its in your control"
Like, which is it? Is this a collective undertaking by a community of multiple stakeholders or is this the Dev's individual project and they don't have to listen to anyone?
Devs, especially extremely busy ones "listen" via pull requests. Instead of badgering the devs, put together some devs of your own, get some code working, and submit it as a PR.
If they don't accept it, you now have code that does what you want, and it would be easy to create your own fork.
Yeah, and this would work fine for new features. But for removing existing features that alter the entire ecosystem regardless if you upgrade or not? This isn't at all the same, and casting it as such isn't honest.
I feel like folks keep making this a technical merit discussion when that's not at all what it is. A better technical solution is required, I agree. I'm not even disagreeing that captcha can be bypassed - but so can a lock, or a door, or any security feature really given a sufficiently intelligent threat.
But so far the captcha has already made some difference in what instances have spam account problems and those that don't. To argue that it isn't perfect is a logical fallacy that's making my head hurt. Shall we get rid of door locks because they can be picked? Should we get rid of garage doors entirely with the new hacking devices available - obviously the security isn't perfect so why have it at all?
Since when did perfect become the enemy of good? We had a good solution... And now we're throwing it out of a better one, fine! But leave the good one in place until then.
Did we? Do you know why it was removed in the first place?