Exactly this. I didn’t notice the bot icon the first time I saw alien.top, and wasted time responding.
I’ve blocked the instance from my client.
Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 11 months ago
The worst part is when I spend time replying to a question, later to realize the OP will never see it.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
I fell for that a few times. Then I realized these were communities on instances that had like 40 million posts all from people from Alien who had a Lemmy history consisting of one post and no comments.