Hello comrades! I am new to the world of reddit alternatives and have been interested in exploring welcoming anti-capitalist communities. I want to see a post-capitalist world in my lifetime, which means we are going to need to be open to new comrades of diverse backgrounds and abilities. With that in mind, we need to talk about the problematic signup process. In question here is the all important Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart every user must engage with in order to join the community. The current captcha process is very difficult for those with divergent visual abilities. As someone who relies on accessibility tools to interact with the digital world, I call on the techncs community to address the problematic choices in the sign up process. Additionally, consulting people with different abilities for input on technical architecture is a must to promote diversity in the community.
lemmy devs/tchncs admins might be interested in cloudflare turnstile, captcha replacement which doesen’t involve solving a puzzle. iirc it runs some proof-of-work and sometimes requries you to check a single checkbox.
Yeah, let’s put Cloudflare into every single website. What a great idea for an open and federated network.