@FediTips @tokyo_0 @TroikaFox
Hey thanks for asking these questions and gathering feedback. I'd just like to humbly try and make sure we're not operating on a bad assumption here -

When servers added moderated signups, the spammers stopped signing up on those servers - that is clear. However, if ALL servers moderated signups, would the spammers give up? Or would they adapt to the moderated signups (say, with an AI LLM) and continue spamming?

It is possible that they only stopped signing up on servers that added signup moderation because other open-signup servers were easily available. If that were no longer true, and if the spammers adapted and continued to sign up, then requiring moderated signups adds a barrier only for non-spammers, which seems counterproductive.