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Can we defederate from Alien.top? It's just bots. (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by DerisionConsulting to c/main

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Alien.top's raison-d'etre is to create bots and repost things from Reddit.

The instance makes a bot with the same username as the poster from reddit, then makes a bot with the same username as all the commenters, and re-posts each comment.

Every alien.top user in this thread is a bot.
https://lemmy.ca/post/10599153?scrollToComments=true

I did a quick check, and it looks like 138 of the comments are bots.

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice to see 140 non toxic helpful comments.

[–] DerisionConsulting 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't really comments, they are closer to pictures of comments.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah I get it and understand how it works. It’s still amazing to me. Also I don’t know if you understand that the creator is trying to have communication get mirrored between Reddit/lemmy so they’re both contributing to each other.

[–] mp3 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their bridge to post comments from Lemmy to Reddit is going to get banned from Reddit in the blink of an eye.

[–] canis_majoris 10 points 1 year ago

Yep, this project is pointless because reddit will absolutely not let it exist.

[–] DerisionConsulting 10 points 1 year ago

I am aware of what they have said their goal is, but it's not how alien.top works.

It would also be one thing if a user opted in to have their own content mirrored, but it's not a user-by-user basis.

Also, this is a discussion for those from Lemmy.ca, though I appreciate you voicing an opinion.