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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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[–] mp3 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uhhh that's bad then, and therefore I agree with the defederation.

Thanks for sharing, I added all these domains to my mobile app instance filter until 0.19 hits the server.

[–] DerisionConsulting 5 points 1 year ago

I had the same thought process as you did!

When I thought it was just people cloning their own accounts, I didn't see why anyone was against it.

Once I saw that the bots weren't made from a request duplicate made the the original user, and that they almost exclusively post outside of Alien.top, I was very against their existence.