CAPTCHAs and sign‑up quizzes annoy real people and barely slow down determined bots. As the fediverse grows, we need smarter, more humane defences, ones that don’t push away genuine newcomers. What creative, non‑intrusive ideas do you have? Trust‑based vouching, proof‑of‑humanity protocols, behavioural signals… what feels both effective and aligned with the open social web? I’m building a social media platform and I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic.
I’ve seen a few Discord servers I’m on use some bot that creates a honeypot channel. It immediately bans anyone that posts in it. It’s so low tech that it perfectly handled the weird problem of people getting their account taken and posting spam in every channel. I can’t help but wonder if honeypots could appeal to the “loose with rules” nature of modern LLMs/AI tools.
Sometimes low tech is the best solution. Thats a good idea :)
Most bots are not sophisticated. If they were…they would just get a human being to do it. The whole point is to do something repetitive easy again and again.