Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam

• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmit.online has a bunch of communities, but at least you can curtail that by just blocking one bot user.

  Have a look at nba.space, style.land, gearhead.town, hi-fi.community, poweruser.forum, on and on and on. Every post to all the communities on there is an alien.top bot. How do you block that from the user or community level?

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  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The list of communities is listed here in the sidebar: communick.news/c/communick_news_network

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think Lemmy 0.19 instance blocking will make it easier but it’s still 18 instances. From the communities there appears to be about a dozen communities per instance. you’d need to go and visit each one and block them, or just wait for the latest spam from one of them to appear and block them, more than 100 times.

      The point being, that even if they are useful, bot accounts and automated Reddit reposts flooding people’s “All” feeds reduces the quality of the Fediverse network, and leaving it up to users to go through an opt-out process that’s harder than opting out of individual cookie vendors is not conducive to a healthy online community.

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      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think Lemmy 0.19 instance blocking will make it easier but it’s still 18 instances. From the communities there appears to be about a dozen communities per instance. you’d need to go and visit each one and block them, or just wait for the latest spam from one of them to appear and block them, more than 100 times.

        Good point, I thought there were less because it’s always the same that come up. Wouldn’t Lemmy 0.19 allow to block them all by blocking alien.top, as all bots are from that instance?

        The point being, that even if they are useful, bot accounts and automated Reddit reposts flooding people’s “All” feeds reduces the quality of the Fediverse network, and leaving it up to users to go through an opt-out process that’s harder than opting out of individual cookie vendors is not conducive to a healthy online community.

        That’s valid, but on the other hand, if it were to actually work and bring people to Lemmy, then it would be positive for the community.

        I find the Fediverser communities more useful than something like Lemmit for instance, because Lemmit doesn’t add the comments, which are usually why people are on Reddit

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    • CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !communick_news_network@communick.news

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• registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are only a few communities (650+ that I know of) dedicated to mirroring reddit content to the Lemmyverse. This is part of a bigger problem, not just this specific user’s system.

  If bots started spamming fediverse@lemmy.world I don’t agree that the best course of action would be for users to block the community.

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  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was talking specifically about the ones in Fediverser. In this case, it’s quite simple to block the communities.

    If bots started spamming fediverse@lemmy.world I don’t agree that the best course of action would be for users to block the community.

    That’s indeed another issue, and I agree with you that bots shouldn’t be able to spam there.

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