Me too - genuinely think I could leave Reddit behind entirely if we could get a decent Scottish Football community going. Sadly I'm entirely the wrong person to lead the charge as I'm just a filthy casual who loves the chat regardless, but there's gotta be some fitba fans out there in the fediverse somewhere surely...
Definitely - as it happens, I've got a working third-party app workaround for now, but it feels like I'm crashing a party where I'm not wanted now and I'd rather just leave.
Re getting a bot, that can be a double edged sword - it's what already happens on PhotoshopBattles here and the result is that hardly anyone posts, and those who do see their posts disappear swiftly under all the bot posts. As a result this becomes self perpetuating and hardly anyone posts.