Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year agoI believe users are bots until they decide to claim the account by proving the Reddit account belongs to them. After that, they become regular old Lemmy accounts?
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That sounds great in theory. I don’t think I have seen a single post where anyone transitioned, but I could be wrong.
It’s just a noisy mess, IMHO.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I know of one account, because I initiated the claim process lol
I’d prefer a slower rollout while things get implemented because yea, it’s a bit of a mess in the meantime
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 year ago
Why would you send someone to a server “stealing” identities and offer the “victim” to “claim” it? Wouldn’t it be more ethical to send them to i.e. join-lemmy.org/instances with the freedom to chose what instance and community they’d want to be part of?
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
No identity is being “stolen”. The mirrors are not doing anything on behalf of the users, and no content is being altered.
Go to /r/redditalternatives and let me know how many people simply don’t understand the concept of instances.
Or understand the concept of instances, but didn’t want to bother with the process of finding out which one to choose.
Or went with the “just go to lemmy.world” approach, got burned because it was struggling to deal with the influx of people and thought “Aw, Lemmy sucks”.
Or took the time to find an instance, but after signing up had no idea how to find (re-)discover all their niche communities.
Fediverser is solving most if not all these problems.