They killed captcha support in 0.18, which basically negates one of the methods to stop the bots… so if we upgrade, we will likely need to email verification until 0.18.1 is released OR stay on 0.17.4 until 0.18.1 is released where they’ve promised to bring it back.
I suggest we wait until we have new captcha.
I don’t like enter email and have mod manual verified. I strongly believe that Lemmy need to be open.
And captcha solve the problem of bot and spam.