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

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 40 points – 12 months ago

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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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? :)

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

metacritics.zone ?

Sounds good.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Interesting

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?

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

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.

That's very nice, thank you!