That account is just outrageously blatant, I would have given them the benefit of the doubt if it was just one article, although I still would have been very cautious of my doubt, but they posted 6 of these type posts

The main reason to do captchas nowadays is to keep the door closed. Of course they do not deter more expert-ish people, but opportunity “hackers” aka script kiddies. If you’re not using captchas you’re just inviting them to run a script on your site. Big sites use captchas, there’s no reason for the fediverse to not use captchas. We don’t need to be “special” in regards to security.

Probably by the amount of account creations per IP. That would at least be the simplest way. I can understand having alts or inactive accounts but those aren’t the problem, the bots account for probably around 85% or so of accounts by now.

Do you know how active users are defined because I don’t usually make my own posts but I upvote and comment every now and then?

The snow music is literally the best I sometimes listen to the soundtrack even when playing other games!

Daggerfall sherly, but I gotta add that I didn’t grow up on DOS games so I don’t have quite the expertise. Although I love older games, growing up with it is a different thing.