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A comment on Reddit banned me for developing Geddit. Parent comment

Re:Reddit banned me for developing Geddit by latexr on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:20AM (#41345826)
> they could simply run their own instances

And then what? No one is going to navigate an instance that is just spam, and other instances will promptly block them.

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Re:Reddit banned me for developing Geddit by rglullis on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:39AM (#41346253)
Right, the incentive will be to create accounts on the popular instances, not on the paid ones.

There was a spam wave some months ago. The spammers were using Mastodon and Sharkey instances that had open registrations. They were not signing up to paid-only instances to become "legit".

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