this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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No it's not that. Lots of us never interacted with that sub. Just block them no need to defederate a while instance
If the instance won't kill the sub, the members of the sub will take over that instance.
I'm seeing some people testing the waters of some subs to see what they can get away with.
so because the donald was on reddit, the entire reddit community was taken over?
At the height of it, yes. It filled up the front page every single day and made the site absolutely reek.
It's what made me stop browsing /r/all, drop off most default subs, and stick to only my subscribed subs. Brigading and spamming is the whole point.
That must have sucked, did you just not think about blocking the sub at the time? Oh you are saying they were posting donald stuff in default subs too?
I ended up getting banned from the donald during its rise. All i did was provide info refuting someones clames..
Ended up just blocking the sub. So its possible i missed the whole rise and fall part.
Maybe not "taken over" per se, but they definitely didn't confine to just their own community
E: Guess it was worst than I thought, I had blocked the subreddit fairly early on.
It had a massive impact on the "culture" of the website and would have kept spreading quite effectively if the admins weren't pressured to quarantine it for PR reasons.
Users need the ability to block entire instances. Problem solved.