We've currently got a spambot talking about making $12k a month while working only 11 hours a week. The bot doesn't realize that we're trying to do even more than that for everybody. We're an obscure and fairly custom website so I'm wondering how it even got on here.
Did somebody have to program it just for Hexbear? Is it a Lemmy spambot that found our site? Are spambots now sophisticated enough to sign up to a site like ours without custom programming? Did anybody spend human effort to spam our site? I've realized I don't know much about how spambots work and would love to hear from somebody who does if we've got somebody like that here.
As for a solution, we could make our own CAPTCHA system that displays historical communist leaders and you have to select the ones that were revisionists.
Hexbear is more likely to get its ass in gear with growth as it will provide new dev volunteers as well as fresh motivation to volunteer team members who are ultimately entirely fuelled by momentum and the motivation derived from it. You see volunteer teams do big chunks of their work in bursts that come from a motivational booster period and then momentum that follows, then you often see quieter periods followed by other momentum periods.