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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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~~It's at least opt-in for users to be mirrored (I think), but~~ it's still just creating spammy garbage.
Edit, I was wrong. It's worse than I thought.
It's "opt-in" only for whoever decides to run that for a subreddit/community though.
As in someone decides to run that bot for a community and it will clone all content, they decide if they clone all the reddit comments too.
It's also annoying to deal with as a user because the bots are on alien.top, but the communities are all over the place with new ones popping up.
The new "instance block" feature in 0.19 blocks all communities from that instance, not their users when they post elsewhere.
Gross, I thought it allowed a username to opt it so all of their posts were duplicated.
Time for everyone to defederate from Alien.top
Users can supposedly "claim" their bot persona to take them over.
But... when I switched from reddit to lemmy, it wasn't a matter of losing my comment history from reddit.
In theory, the idea of kickstaryimg lemmy communities with content seems nice, but in practice it's only ghost towns with an overwhelming bot white noise.