Michael Altfield

@Raspire52 great to hear you're making progress, thank you! Please make sure that you are pushing your commits to github daily so that we can follow-along as you learn and...

See also this feature request to implement hashcash as a better alternative to graphical CAPTCHAs * https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3204 > captchas will not stop those signup bots...You need to turn on registration...

@th3raid0r the devs have already supported the idea of adding mCaptcha support, which is a better alternative to graphical CAPTCHAs (both mathematically and heuristically). Instead of forking, why not just...

@ForbodingAngel I think the argument you want to make is Defense in Depth * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)

@lightrush what you're describing can happen with email, but we don't have allow-only email. Rather, I think shared blocklists are healthier than allow-only federation. This is how email works. *...

One of the reasons I left reddit was because my account was erroneously shadowbanned as soon as I joined (for privacy, I constantly create new throwaway accounts). I didn't do...

> Giving more info to the spammers about how we spot them helps the spammers avoid bans I vote for [security through cryptography](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3204), not [security through obscurity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity#Criticism).

See also https://github.com/mirfatif/PermissionManagerX/issues/4 ^ This suggests to install it in the secondary profile, but obviously that doesn't work (per error in OP)

Thanks. Maybe you can update the error message to indicate that multi-user environment *is* supported, but only in the pro version?

Are banned users currently able to delete their accounts? Edit: they're not, and this issue (letting banned users delete their data) is a distinct bug = #3973