I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    164·
    8 months ago

    They are definitely not appearing as bots in Connect.

    If the accounts from alien.top you are seeing are not marked as bots, then it means that you interacted with an actual person who has taken over their account. ;)

    i dont agree this is the solution.

    Then how about help and come up with something better?

    will not waste time interacting with bots.

    Then don’t interact with the bots. You can, e.g, write the comment on Lemmy and send a DM to the original redditor, inviting them to join the instance/community. I did that to dozens of people already.

    • CameronDev@programming.devOP
      71·
      8 months ago

      None of them are marked as bots. It is possibly a problem with my instance not mirroring the bot status.

      I personally don’t think there is a solution. I don’t beleive it is possible to force growth, and trying risks turning people away. I am also not convinced that growth is essential either, reddit always felt so big that i felt like more of an observer, lemmy is nice and small that it feels more like a community.

      You obviously disagree, and i will leave you to it.