I mean, both are problems.
ImADifferentBird
Hey, some bots are cool. There are even whole instances devoted to bots, like botsin.space.
Spambots can go to hell though, along with their creators.
Must be doing something right.
I'm increasingly glad I got the fuck out of there.
For Lemmy on Android, I'm using Eternity, which is a fork of the Reddit client Infinity.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy
EDIT: Fixing link
5 years of OS updates is more than you get from any other Android manufacturer. For everyone else in the space, you are lucky to get 3.
Honestly, just pick up any USB barcode scanner, open a spreadsheet up in Excel or Google Sheets, and go to town. It will go pretty quickly.
Did you skip over Code of Honor? Wouldn't blame you if you did, of course.
Bookshop.org is an attempt to provide an alternative to Amazon as a bookseller by using a network of independent book stores. It's not decentralized technologically or anything like that; it's just a website that bookshops can affiliate with. But it does represent a model to build an alternative that other industries can learn from.
I wouldn't call this a "smart workaround". I mean, I can hardly blame the opportunistic fucks for doing it this way, and certainly the original sin in Apple's licensing/certification bullshit, but it's just an amazingly stupid way of doing this all around, brought about by both Apple's and the earbud manufacturers' greed.