fruey

Are you testing posting from the web interface?

You may have to bite the bullet and trawl through the necessary incremental updates unless there’s a guide containing just the necessary steps.

Use a temporary domain from a service like afraid.org, or use a subdomain. I doubt IP address will work

Use a temporary domain from a service like afraid.org, or use a subdomain. I doubt IP address will work

It depends on how many bots - if you want profile images for them and a description then manual creation will make their profiles look better