@mike G'day Mike, hope you're well.

A few days ago i did [another 🤣 🤦‍♀️​] #FediHop, & so some of the first accounts i added for Follows were my five fav chinwaggers per pic. I've been curious about this question for quite a long time now [given i've been thru this process many times 🤭​], & so thought i might actually ask you now so i can understand [for if there's a "next time", 😉 ].

When peeps try to follow any chinwag #newsbot accounts, like i do, is the approval process automated, or instead require manual personal action? If manual, then i definitely see why it would take a few days. If automated though, should it still take a few days, like always seems to have been for me, each time i have hopped?

I'm not any server admin or anything, yet i'm still curious, ta. Also, btw, fwiw, i derive great utility from these accounts, so i wanna thank you for running them! 🤗​

Saw this thread; https://aus.social/@[email protected]/111256108324385530

Became momentarily excited, before then remembering that sadly @aussocialadmin blocks @bird.makeup, so when i made my last #FediHop to this #Instance, i was implicitly accepting the loss of my fav bots to follow:

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#Introduction

Given my ethos is #Greens, i tend to recycle & minimise waste. Thus this stale reheated blowie-bloated Intro is lazily rehashed, with only minimal tweaks, from the plethora of other #Mastodon, #Firefish & #Friendica fediverse #Instances whose various doorsteps i've darkened since Nov 2012.

Today, after weeks & months of indecisively weighing Pros & Cons, i've finally, formally, perpetrated my latest #FediHop. Sorry about that; i'll try not to wee on the carpet.

I wonder if a new introduction is really needed? I mean, i'm still me, for worse or worserer 😜 My original intro afaik remains at https://fosstodon.org/@dropbear42/109318341169759339, with subsequent variants scattered all over the fediverse now. Sorry about that.

I suppose that hypothetically, if i were to do another Intro, i might mention that typically i'll mumble, grumble & mutter about various topics including #FOSS, #Linux in all her glory & fun, #politics, #RWNJ ghastliness, #environment, our self-induced #ClimateCrisis, random whimsical thoughts, #LGBTQI & particularly #Trans stuff.

Sooner or later, my view will pop up here & there that #religion, #capitalism & #patriotism are historically + currently at the heart of most human misery & devastation. I also probably won't be able to resist frequent quips about & allusions to fabbo #MontyPython & #HHGTTG stuff. Did i mention #DoctorWho?

No, on second-thought, i really think another Intro is unnecessary, redundant, tautologous, unwarranted & superfluous, not to mention shamefully gratuitous, so i certainly shan't bother doing one. Silly idea altogether. Sorry about that.

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