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Does alien.top do anything other than mirror reddit comments?
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this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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All accounts are marked as bots.
The tool is to help reddit users migrate to Lemmy. By going to the portal, reddit users can "take over" their reddit mirror account and get started on Lemmy already subscribed to the same communities they subscribed on reddit.
I'm also working on two-way mirroring, but even without it is already very useful... Do you know the "rule" of 90/9/1? On every social media network, 90% of the users are just lurking. 9% participate in the discussion occasionally and 1% are prolific participants. In my case, thanks to fediverser, I managed to unsub from almost 40 subreddits I was subscribed, but I managed to bring this number to 2 (/r/fediverse and /r/redditalternatives)
I'm not going to say which to avoid the Streisand effect, but I'm seeing some communities that already have interesting conversations between organic users which could have only have started because of some comment thread that has been mirrored.
They are definitely not appearing as bots in Connect.
I am aware of the 90/9/1 rule, i dont agree this is the solution.
I may be the outlyer, but now that i am aware of it, i am blocking alien.top, and will not waste time interacting with bots.
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. ;)
Then how about help and come up with something better?
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.
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.
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Could be? I can now see bot markings on the posts, but not the profile, so maybe its just me. Its certainly was not super clear to me.
Can confirm, using connect the account is not marked but their posts are. Definitely seems to be a connect bug. Shame, connect has been pretty much perfect so far.
Oh wow that's cool, I was wondering how this would be different from Lemmit. Really cool
How does 2 way mirroring work? How are you planning to fund / keep the instance stable?
That will depend on a few things:
The last one would be the easiest to implement, but I'm avoiding releasing this because it might be taken down due to spam.
Regarding "how to fund it". This is an open source project, so you can sponsor me via github, but the best way you can help is by signing up to my "proper" hosting service.
I like the idea. Did notice an error in the about page though:
Sounds cool, looking forward to seeing it in action
That's really cool. I got to do that with my Reddit account. Thx