We appreciate you trying so hard. Don't feel bad. Once we reach a specific goal we are moving to OpenCollective and they may be more forgiving about donating from other countries. Not that you HAVE to, jut saying it might work there.
I'm an admin from https://sffa.community
We did notice a large amount of bot sign-ups early on. We already ha email verification on and they never made it past that stage.
We have since turned on CAPTCHA and now they aren't signing up any longer.
We've purged the bot accounts from our database.
We are working on generating organic content but we've only been open for a couple weeks so I just ask that other instances bear with us. We've a very niche community of sci-fi and fantasy geeks. We'd love to be federated again.
On our instance we have !cosmere@sffa.community and !brandonsanderson@sffa.community along with some other niche ones. Still working on generating content since we're so new.
Our entire instance is dedicated to Sci-Fi and Fantasy media.
yeah this one is a bit less newbie-friendly, but overall I think it can be done. The mysterious magic stuff isn't that different from the stuff at the end of Tress. The biggest issues are all the Stormlight references that never get explained because.