Found the human. Alert central command.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Alien.top is just redit morroring bots. The usernames are the reddit usernames. I had this same question a while back before lemmy.world defederated from it.
It is a bot community. They are mirrored comments from reddit, using the reddit usernames. Its a little creepy.
The person running the instance beleives its necessary in order to prevent lemmy dying :/
I wish it were possible to block all users from an instance, I am sick of seeing alien.top spam as well.
I may be misunderstanding what alien.top is but I thought it was somebody's attempt to bring more content to Lemmy by using a bot to migrate Reddit posts. I think? Im not real technical and I could be entirely wrong but that's what I think I saw a while back when someone else was asking about defederating from that instance for the same reasons you posted
Yes I would agree. As far as I can tell it might be only a one way street. So when the reddit posts are copied to Lemmy we can see it but the same might not be true when something is posted here.. Good idea still at the same time but would be good if the bot did two way communication
on ~~reddit~~lemmy, everyone is bots except you
I have "show bots" disabled, and your post is the only one visible in this community.
It was mirroring the corresponding subreddit. Every post and every comment mirrors the reddit account activity. Posters can not engage with the community because the two-way bridge with reddit is not implemented (yet).