#fediverse #spam fighting is a highly asymmetrical fight.
Protection relies on inefficient free human labor, whereas the spammers have cheap, automated infinite resources.
There must be something built into one of the tech layers, or else it will be the end of your small or medium mastodon server probably this year even.
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@berkes With one recent big case, it wasn't even a proper spammer per se, it was someone casually stirring up trouble. That probably could have been dealt with with a simple text Question + Answer captcha set by the admin.
I think it's also probably far less likely someone will pay someone to solve questions for a smaller site. Being a smaller site using an exotic stack also helps.
