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?

  • @rglullisA
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    -17 months 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
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      37 months 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!

      • @rglullisA
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        7 months 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
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          17 months ago

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

          • @rglullisA
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            17 months ago

            metacritics.zone ?

                  • @rglullisA
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                    17 months 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?

                  • @rglullisA
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                    17 months 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.