How do I prevent spam registrations

There are several ways to do this (suggestions from the community):

• A honeypot diverts bots without bothering people: https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot/

• "I once wrote a tiny plugin for UltimateMember where you simply have to enter a text to register. Accessible and it keeps all bots out: Download from GitHub. Just create a text box and enter the meta key in the plugin settings."

• "We use hCaptcha for WordPress. After installation, select the registration you use in the plugin settings (e.g., UltimateMember; by default the built-in WordPress registration should be selected). To use it, you need to create an hCaptcha account. They advertise Privacy-First and that no user data is sold. I have not checked this myself." — Download from the plugin directory