Are there less bots here for any specific reason? Or will bots start to run rampant here as soon as the Fediverse becomes more popular?

This is the FINAL final warning!

Interesting. I thought he was trying to say No way, Hoss.

Not sure if you can edit, but your description says June 9.

I ran into the same issue with Lemmy.World. Tried switching to Beehaw.org first (before I learned that they had defederated from some of the bigger instances) and had my “application” rejected. Appears I didn’t provide good enough reasons for why I wanted to join their particular instance. To me, it just shouldn’t be that serious. Tried sh.it just.works and well, it works!