Yeah, it’s the fallacy of letting perfect be the enemy of good. It can stop 90% of bots (made up that number) but because it doesn’t stop 100%, it’s not worth doing?
What’s also weird is that the Lemmy dev was pushing for a different form of captcha that definitely doesn’t stop bots either (just is more niche and requires bots to expend a frankly trivial amount of extra processing power)!
Yeah, it’s the fallacy of letting perfect be the enemy of good. It can stop 90% of bots (made up that number) but because it doesn’t stop 100%, it’s not worth doing?
What’s also weird is that the Lemmy dev was pushing for a different form of captcha that definitely doesn’t stop bots either (just is more niche and requires bots to expend a frankly trivial amount of extra processing power)!