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Is your proposal related to a problem?

We just had a spam wave. I enabled captcha to prevent the automated spam signups.
Has helped on mastodon as well.

The spam accounts didn't get verified, but they caused the e-mail to be blocked for this domain, because they used non-existent Gmail addresses. That's why the captcha would be a gooed extra step.

(Account approvals aren't useful with a few thousand new accounts per day.)

Describe the solution you'd like.

Bring back captcha.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Mail verification doesn't always work, and in this case it got my mail for the domain blocked.
Approvals are too much work for a big server

Additional context

No