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Ruud Jun 23, 2023

Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18

Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 - Lemmy.world

The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced [https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-23_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.0]. This will solve many issues. But we can’t upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200], this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots. Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app won’t work with servers older than 0.18. So if you’re on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.

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Kabe Jun 23, 2023

The Dev's stubbornness about captchas is a little baffling. Yes, they're not 100% foolproof but they help.

It's like arguing that we shouldn't have locks or our doors because a skilled lock picker can pick them.

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CosmicSploogeDrizzle Jun 23, 2023

They agreed to add them back. You can read their comments in OPs link

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Kabe Jun 23, 2023

That only happened recently, though. For weeks they were replying to instance admins requests to reinstate captchas with things like "bots have beaten captchas, so they're useless."

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nulldev

What are you talking about? The issue to bring back captchas was only opened 4 days ago!

Captchas were only removed 2 weeks ago, no one spoke up then: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2922

Bring back Captcha · Issue #3200 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not p...

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