So, are the other 2 accounts who upvoted this bot's or just stupid?
We're working on that, but not there yet.
It could be a page on the instance with half based on a form to be filled out in the admin pages, and the other half with Lemmy funding.
A shared donation page might encourage them to promote it. One where there would be all lemmy dev funding options, but admins could also add theirs. Sounds like a low hanging fruit.
We'll also discuss announcing a cut of our donations going upstream in our collective.
Anything other than the custom emoji one? We're one of the oldest instances, running with limited resources and update when we either have the time and energy for that, or when we have to.
As for spam: we block spam accounts from other instances before their own mods nearly daily, including from the biggest ones. Chill.
It is, to the point of developing it's own deployment system to be able to run lemmy on bare metal in a way we see fit, as opposed to the unpredictable cycle and frustrating process of using the main packages.
It does not. Other then running a private/closed instance there's really no way to limit input from anyone with an account.