No, the screenshot is real, they’ve been testing it in selected regions for a little bit

There’s a post on hexbear explicitly about creating bots to brigade other instances, money’s on that being a part of it

Lots of capchas usually, I can’t remember being outright blocked when I used it

The post was already sarcastic though, so you didn’t add anything

Amateur content does a lot better on places like Reddit, a lot of porn sites pretty much don’t allow it