Comment on What is alien.top and why do all the users from there show up as bots and have no history?

can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If that’s what it is the the way they’re doing it is beyond obnoxious because I can’t just block the whole thing. If I wanted reddit comments then I would be using reddit.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Luckily in a few weeks you can block entire instances natively within lemmy. In the mean time maybe your app allows filtering?

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    • Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Will that also block all users from that instance? I was under the impression that it just blocked posts from that instance showing up in your feed.

      Did we really need yet another reddit mirroring bot?

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      • Temperche@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I personally requested it because this particular bot also mirrors comments, not just posts. And the two super niche communities it posts in are completely dead on lemmy, so im trying to revive them by having at least some updates, also so people dont have to go back to reddit just to get that niche content.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Did we really need yet another reddit mirroring bot?

        The idea of fediverser is to do a lot more than “another mirroring bot”. The idea is to have a way that can let people “clone” their reddit profiles to Lemmy instances and seamlessly migrate away from it. Pulling content from reddit and into specific communities (where the mods have expressed interest in hosting the mirrored content) is a way to bootstrap the Lemmy community and to convince potential reddit-migrants that they can settle here without missing out on the content from the niche communities.

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      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If it’s top comment on a reddit post then yeah, they’ll automatically get filtered since they are tied to their posts.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are these bots posting in communities from other instances?

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The bots are only posting to communities that have explicit approval from the mods. Are you subscribing to any of those communities or is your complaint because it is showing in your “all” feed?

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    • jacktherippah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I guess our problem with it is that we don’t want a bot clogging up our feeds with content from Reddit and we would prefer if you shut it down.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Please, don’t use the Royal We to make your argument. For every person complaining about the bots, I have two people asking for it and telling me that they are glad they can access content from the niche communities without having to access reddit.

        Anyway, your beloved leaders at LW already defederated from alien.top, so there is nothing you have to worry about. Enjoy your sheltered life.

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