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.
Good timing, I was planning to make a thread today to poll public opinion. Yes, I’m in complete agreement. I don’t see anyone here with a solid counterargument either.
Even when 0.19 is out I think these bots are a bad idea. The new users who are most likely to be confused by them, are also the least likely to figure out how to block an instance.
I’ve defederated us from them for now.