Highly likely it is a bot

Discord can do shit like this because they know many won't ever try to use an alternative. You need more than just "open source" "privacy" or "FOSS" to convince people.

What crypto do they accept?

Good luck ban it, Telegram runs everywhere without playstore and with proxy.

Telegram is great for nothing related to privacy.

SimpleX.

Many Latinos refuse to use "e" when the "o" is already neutral. Better improve your Spanish grammar than changing it.

Homebrewing. If you want to brew something like IPA the cost of hops gets way higher.

I think lemmy.world gather the kind of redditors that like sanitized world views, the power of decentralization makes us choose an instance without those hot garbaje takes as lemmy.world.

Found some power tripping mods in some instances, lemmy.ml seems fairly neutral.

The power of decentralization.

The important catalyst is good third party clients working with Lemmy as Voyager and Sync and people learning about the fediverse.