seems to do the trick against gitea spam signups!
https://git.pixie.town/f0x/gitea-registration-proxy/src/tag/v0.0.5
@f0x I got mine working too :3 If you want to use it I could shoot you an API token, but considering my uptime track record you may wanna host it yourself ;P
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/gitea-registration-proxy
Small server part of the pixie.town infrastructure. Registration is closed.