Perhaps this isn’t new, as I’ve only been on Lemmy for around 3 months, but up until this point I hadn’t noticed spam, advertising, scams, etc at all on Lemmy. However, within the last 2 days I’ve seen at least 3 examples of obvious spam posts, made by accounts clearly dedicated to that purpose. Has anyone else noticed this? And are there steps we could take to counter it (perhaps a report button)?
I think its just that captcha is so cheap and easy to bypass. I’m sure you know about the farms of people solving captcha for bots and other spam services.
Captcha is more of a user annoyance at this point.