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r/The_Donald now on Lemmy (edit: not anymore) (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies.

In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit and flush it into our timelines.

The instance-admin of [email protected] did not reply to my message. Big instances seem not to defederate with them.

The new TD may not be a success, the point is not to give Nazis a platform like it is happening now. Fans of TD are racists.

Where are the instances that show face against racism?

edit: to contact the admins: @donut @TheDude @smorks

edit2: @TheDude deleted the community :)

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[–] FlaxPicker 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

so because the donald was on reddit, the entire reddit community was taken over?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlaxPicker 0 points 2 years ago

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?

[–] niels 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.