Jamie

Luckily for you, they haven't learned to count to a thousand yet. The highest number I got was 566. The rest were 1-2 digits.

I run a private instance, but haven't had captcha or email verification on because, well, it's just me and one friend that I don't think even uses his account. I have applications on and don't approve anyone because it's a personal instance. So far, I've had 5 bots apply. I'll put their application text at the bottom of this post.

Names tended to follow (noun)(noun)## format. One actually only had one noun. But it seems like having applications on by itself makes a lot of them just not bother with you. Even better, the wording of the applications was... odd. They'd stick out like a sore thumb in a batch of real ones, I think.

"I’m eager to join the World [email protected] community to broaden my global perspective and participate in discussions about current affairs."

"I want to join the Lemmy.world community because I’m curious to connect with fellow users and engage in discussions about various topics."

"I yearn to depart from Reddit and embark on a transformative journey within this innovative social network by joining your instance."

"Joining the /kbin [email protected] community seems interesting as I can engage in discussions about the platform’s development and future enhancements."

"Driven by the ongoing events on Reddit, I’m eager to join this instance and find the satisfaction and pleasure that has eluded me elsewhere."

I just have my instance installed as a progressive web app with emails enabled for replies. It's a little roundabout I suppose, but my email will give me a notification when I get something.

I have a bluetooth keyboard for my phone that is a proper full size keyboard. Came with a nice little minimalistic plastic stand to hold my phone up for me, too. Of course, it is a little unwieldy to just carry around, but it'd be fine on a trip if you can't take a laptop for some reason.

Speaking for myself personally, usually the screen real estate isn't why I dislike long phone writing sessions, it's the slow typing speed. Going down from the 90-100/110+WPM I can do on a real keyboard to the 40-45WPM I get on a phone. It makes typing anything feel devastatingly slow compared to using a proper PC with a keyboard. There's just not really a way to migrate that speed to a mobile device without having a proper keyboard where I can utilize all of my fingers toward writing.

On my personal instance and I'm here.

He probably forgot to translate his tweet into Russian. Here's a machine translation for him:

🌟 Присоединяйтесь к движению за спасение нашей страны! Получите невероятную Коллекцию Кеннеди сегодня и гордо поддерживайте Роберта Ф. Кеннеди-младшего. Каждая покупка помогает ему бороться за наши семьи и светлое будущее. Объединим Америку: merch.kennedy24.com 🇺🇸💪 #Kennedy2024

I'm not worried about it. The "Legal" page of my Lemmy instance even spells out that anything posted on it is likely permanent.

I'm just pointing out that the issue being fixed doesn't necessarily mean it isn't still a concern to someone.

Even if it's fixed, there's nothing stopping anyone from running an instance with the delete functions turned off. Or making their own app that mingles with ActivityPub and uses federation to scrape data.

I'd be cool with giving it a shot. I have history adminning traditional forums, but never took up moderation in anything reddit-like.

Typically I'm around in the evenings, GMT-6 CST. On my days off, I'm usually around all night. Plus sporadic moments where I read Lemmy during breaks/lunch.

"blackconservative"

Does Lemmy have an "r/asablackman" sub yet? Because I'm getting that vibe.

As someone whose girlfriend is in love with her Flip 4, yeah I'd call that an accurate statement.

I didn't buy it for her though, she just kinda did it.

As long as they don't give it the GTA Trilogy "remaster" treatment