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Mastodon merged hCaptcha support in mainline: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

This is something that I had been begging for for years to help me combat spam signups on donphan.social, issues on GitHub have been ignored or dismissed as unnecessary at the time:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

I had enough and made the initial implementation for this feature myself on glitch-soc. At the time I got public and DM abuse from FOSSbros for doing it.

Claire reworked it into a cleaner implementation and moved the captcha from the registration form to the confirmation e-mail and merged it into glitch-soc

Now Mainline Mastodon ported that feature for themselves as an "emergency measure" (as in "we care now because we’re the ones needing it") without any acknowledgement for previous requests for that feature nor the work I put into it.

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@Siph it sucks that mainline only ever implements anti-spam measures when it affects mastosoc enough

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