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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Despite what you're implying, the devs have no duty to fix admin-reported problems using admin-dictated solutions.
They have already said they would accept a PR adding support for captchas. Someone will undoubtedly do this before long.
Until then, why the urgency? What is it that's preventing you from keeping your instance on 0.17?
I disagree, once your open source project "sprouts wings" you enter an unspoken power battle. If enough of the community disagrees with something the chance of a successful fork grows. Once a project is forked away, you no longer have any control at all.
Also, even if I don't upgrade to v0.18, I have to live in a fediverse that have other instances that WILL, and they might pose a problem with increased spam.
So, do you think we need to step up to the developers to implement captcha or give way to the community and support a fork with better anty-spam measures?
I'm already in talks with some other admins about a potential fork. Initially we'd just roll back ONLY the captcha change, then work on a better implementation and roll it out in a way that doesn't leave instances exposed.
It would be seamless for most users since it's essentially the same thing as before, just with the Captcha code still included.
Instead of going to the effort of managing a fork, why not just submit a PR with hCapcha to the base repo 🤣 As a Dev, it's not that hard.
Sounds good, thank you for your efforts! I think the decision is bad for the current state of the lemmyverse, we need some roadblocks for spam bots.
I think forks and OG projects can live side by side, even more so, they can have a symbiotic relationship. The beauty of open source that we can learn from each other.