I’ve been seeing a lot of users from alien.top commenting in various threads (mainly sports) lately. They only caught my attention because they are all flagged as bots and I typically manually block most bots (not all because there are some I like). For every one of them their entire post history consists of 1-2 comments or posts. When I took a look at that instance there is nothing there at all and it also shows no users. The comments look human enough but I guess I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that all the comments are LLM generated. Is alien.top just someones LLM experiment or is something else going on here?

  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    9·
    1 year 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?

    • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If it’s top comment on a reddit post then yeah, they’ll automatically get filtered since they are tied to their posts.

    • Temperche@feddit.deEnglish
      64·
      1 year 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. https://communick.news/u/rglullis set it up.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        34·
        1 year 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.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year 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.newsEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            real lemmy users engaged in discussions based on the reddit comments many times already

            Yeah, I know. I’m seeing the same at !main@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news. It’s really cool, and it will be even cooler when I make it two-way.

            I first have to find an instance that would be okay with your software.

            I’m thinking of building a whole network of different instances based around specific interests. I have for selfhosted (which will be for devops in general), soccer, basketball, american football, tennis, crypto/blockchain. Maybe I should set up one for TV/Movie/Music discussion. Any good ideas for a domain name? :)

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Did we really need yet another reddit mirroring bot?

      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.