I have taken the advice from this post and blocked all instances with > 10,000 users, from this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml
I will continue to monitor things and will make another announcement if more blocks are necessary.
If anybody is interested in getting a cleaned up instance federated again, feel free to contact me over DM (if you’re currently blocked, you can contact me on Matrix: @smorks:40to.ca).
Reddit is not the only corporation that would have an interest in torpedoing the Fediverse before it becomes a real competitor.
Interested in who these other ones would be? From my understanding Meta for example is trying to integrate in someway into the Fediverse style community so I can’t imagine they would, but maybe they could have some incentive to make other instances look toxic. Maybe Twitter, but you’d think they would have started their attacks earlier back when Mastodon started to become a thing. The timing of all the bots coming just seems inline with when it would impact reddits bottom line the most.
Especially when it comes to IPOs we have seen other companies do toxic behaviour or hire 3rd party companies to do it in order to try and make themselves look better prior to an IPO. With their aggressive takeovers of subreddits I wouldn’t put it past them. I’ve been on reddit now over 15 years and reddit has completely shredded the respect I had for them in such a short period of time.