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?
Comment on What is alien.top and why do all the users from there show up as bots and have no history?
Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 months agoIf 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.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
jacktherippah@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months 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.
antik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For everyone complaining about bots you have two that come and tell you that they are glad? I highly doubt it seeing the activity in those communities. You’re not the first one to do this reddit botspam, and our actions against these have been very consistent.
You can look that up here: gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world
You create a bot that goes against our publicly-available policy and then you get mad we don’t want to change that policy for you. These rules about bots were put in place because our users requested it. And we are far from the only instance with that policy. Try to do the same on lemm.ee
Our announcement on the bot rules: lemmy.world/post/1860512 Another thread on Reddit repost bots: lemmy.world/post/4844752
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Luckily in a few weeks you can block entire instances natively within lemmy. In the mean time maybe your app allows filtering?
Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
Temperche@feddit.de 11 months 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.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
As somewhat expected, alien.top was defederated. May I recommend you re-create your community in an instance managed by people with a little bit more sense?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
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.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
If it’s top comment on a reddit post then yeah, they’ll automatically get filtered since they are tied to their posts.
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are these bots posting in communities from other instances?