What is alien.top and why do all the users from there show up as bots and have no history? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Fosheze@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 8 points 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?

[-] Temperche@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.news -1 points 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.de 3 points 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.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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? :)

[-] Temperche@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

How about something along metacritic, as this would include not only movies but gaming too? metacritic.top or metacriticz.top ...

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

metacritics.zone ?

[-] Temperche@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds good.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 year ago

https://metacritics.zone/c/90dayfiance. Please join and make any post so that I can appoint you as mod of the community.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer 1 points 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: !90dayfiance@metacritics.zone

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

I'm just finishing the setup of about 8 different instances, each focused on different themes. Any subreddit that you'd like to have mirrored?

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Could you please list the instances? I'm interested in following this.

No subreddit I would like to follow right now, but I'll keep you updated

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still working on them and I definitely need a proper announcement. But so far:

https://soccer.forum (self-explanatory)
https://nba.space (self-explanatory)
https://nfl.community (self-explanatory)
https://matchpoint.zone (tennis)
https://selfhosted.forum (self hosted + different tech stack related to devops)
https://metacritics.zone (pop culture, movies, tv, music, games)
https://style.land (brands, luxury, fashion, consumerism)
https://viewfinder.pro (photography)
https://hi-fi.community (audiophiles)
https://blockchained.world (web3, blockchain)
https://hardware.watch (PC + consumer tech)
https://gearhead.town (car talk)
https://roll20.top (RPGs + tabletop games)
https://netheads.online (VoIP)

Are already deployed, still need to set up the communities and the mirror connection.

[-] Temperche@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

https://feddit.de/post/4691002 - done.

Also, could you make a gakinotsukai one as well?

Lastly, would it be possible for the bot not to copy posts where the OP has removed the content of the thread? There's a lot of posts like that.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

Done.

Can you give me an example of posts that have no content? I will take a look at those later, because now I need to put some work finishing setting up the different instances, communities and I also need to put some time into the fediverser code for letting reddit users take over their mirrored accounts.

[-] Temperche@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

https://feddit.de/post/4700011 and https://feddit.de/post/4689465 would be examples.

Good luck finishing to set up the instances.

I also did a gaki post: https://feddit.de/post/4701709

[-] CommunityLinkFixer 1 points 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: !gakinotsukai@metacritics.zone