There’s a difference between an instance trying to duplicate all of fucking reddit

• There were fewer than 200 subreddits being mirrored. This is far from “all of reddit”.
• Some of them were also mirroring comments, but the large majority was post-only.
• I was implementing a bunch of filters to bring the noise down.
• The bots from alien.top were posting only to instances that I also own.
• No content was being pushed out. If the content from alien.top was ending up on your instance, it was because your users were interested in the content.
• Even after I disabled most of the bots (I think that now it’s only mirroring stuff to sfw.community), the ban on the instance persisted.

With botsin.space, we have a good example of what is reasonable to not be defederated

We also have a good example of an instance that is dead. There is no point in giving that as an example, if no one can’t actually use it.