Beyond ridiculous.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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For me it's the doubling down defending themselves as they get banned from community after community. Like bro, have the tiniest modicum of self reflection please
I'm not gonna out the user since that would put this post in violation of one of the rules here, but it appears they've set up camp and created their own communities to botspam to. I DM'd the admin of their home instance but who knows if they'll see a problem with it.
Edit/Update: That spammer now appears to be banned on their home instance.
For me, it's the people that come here and feel the need to bring all of Reddit with them. Like, do they also bring their shitty exes and all their baggage on dates with their new SO?
And it's not like instances are largely (entirely?) volunteer run and rely on donations or admins footing the bill for hosting. Oh, wait. They are. 18,200+ posts (as of this comment) with the associated thumbnail images, each federated out to who knows how many other instances that store copies and local thumbnails is a pretty clear abuse of the platform. I'd also wager that the userbot in question isn't donating to their home instance, either.
Actually doesnt this raise scalability issues concern overall? Say if user count naturally increase x100 tomorrow.
Technically speaking, yeah.
But the instances that run on donations are more likely to get donations to cover the growing hosting costs from a 100x increase in real users as opposed to one bot spammer spewing out 100+ user's worth of content each month. Ideally, that 100x increase won't be concentrated on a single instance and will be spread out among many instances.
While the amount of content from such an increase would be the same, the posting patterns are more organic from real users compared to the indiscriminate torrent coming from people running bots to repost everything from Reddit. That allows for a lot more granular management of resources.
But won't you need to fetch the content that's posted on other instance in the end, even if distributed?
Yes