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 11 months agoLuckily 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?
Temperche@feddit.de 11 months ago
The admin banned the whole communities! I first have to find an instance that would be okay with your software. Do you have any suggestions as to how to find one? Also, in case you didnt see, real lemmy users engaged in discussions based on the reddit comments many times already, making your idea a success!
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?