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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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[–] Rentlar 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I made a comment about it here

Bots need to:

Have a targeted and specific purpose

Be easy to block for anyone not interested

Be limited in how many posts it can make in an hour.

I find our local sales bot really helpful, but to anyone who finds it annoying they can block the one user and move on. alien.top is hard and complicated to block, even moreso than lemmit.online

[–] Shadow 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Although I'm not a user of the sales bot, I think it provides value for others.