Alien.top’s raison-d’etre is to create bots and repost things from Reddit.

The instance makes a bot with the same username as the poster from reddit, then makes a bot with the same username as all the commenters, and re-posts each comment.

Every alien.top user in this thread is a bot.
https://lemmy.ca/post/10599153?scrollToComments=true

I did a quick check, and it looks like 138 of the comments are bots.

  • m-p{3}AEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Uhhh that’s bad then, and therefore I agree with the defederation.

    Thanks for sharing, I added all these domains to my mobile app instance filter until 0.19 hits the server.

    • DerisionConsultingOPEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      I had the same thought process as you did!

      When I thought it was just people cloning their own accounts, I didn’t see why anyone was against it.

      Once I saw that the bots weren’t made from a request duplicate made the the original user, and that they almost exclusively post outside of Alien.top, I was very against their existence.