Yes, you're probably right. The captcha difficulty was changed to 'hard' maybe a year ago due to a lot of spam bot activity. I have set it back to medium for now and will see how we fare. It should provide a lot more consistent contrast in the challenge, but might not help much with ambiguity of letters (the captcha library might not be the best implementation).
Perhaps some answer and response captcha as an additional test might work, if lemmy supports that? Something asking a community-specific question, like asking for the name of the meta community that's probably easy to look up for a human that is actually interested in how this place works, but which a bot can't easily get from a web search.
I don't believe there's any support for that currently. There's just the one captcha system that's tied in with the backend.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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