Best ideas I got are random captchas, make lemmy invite only, and/or set up some sort of verification system.
Maybe the captcha failure rates visible on a user profile. These tactics can scare off new users but letting lemmy get taken over could be worse than doing nothing.
I watched twitter slowly get flooded with bots. I don’t want the same to happen here.
What should be done about low post count but swarm account spam? On twitter, I probably blocked 2000 accounts, and no matter what the next day there would be new bot accounts. It made replies unusable. These accounts would only have a few posts, but they make up for it in account volume.
You can’t report these accounts fast enough, and the information space will be dominated by bad actors.
I have no issue with bots as a concept if they are marked as on. What I take issue with is the overwhelming of the feed by bots with an agenda and inaction to stop it.
I don’t think enough is done to combat this.