this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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I am tired of Reddit reposts

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a two step process:

  1. Block the repost bots. Your experience will instantly improve
  2. Post something interesting. Complaints about lack of content don't count. Bonus step: engage on existing posts.
[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Block the repost bots

The problem with this is endeavor is you'll either need to block the 1.1M of alien.top bots or block the whole community.

Totally agree on #2 though.
But, any actual user posting something would either be lost in the noise of repost bots, or posting in a community blocked by many people.
I don't see these ever driving engagement.
By all means, br the change, do post content, but you're probably better off doing so elsewhere, in a community that's not 99.999% bots already.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I block communities all right. But you nail the basic problem with the bots. Comments don't matter because they're list in a swirl of bot activity. On some subs I don't even think there are people there.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On some subs I don’t even think there are people there

/gestures around

This is one of them.

I'm currently building my blocklist so hopefully I won't be seeing this place soon.
So far I've got 174 communities on my blocklist, that's for ignoring the 1M bots coming from alien.top that post all over these.
The whole list doesn't even fit in a comment, here's a sneak peak,

URL Subscribers Active Weekly Users Posts Comments
https://level-up.zone/c/gaming 13 49 4274 142388
https://nba.space/c/nba 3 1 6871 119597
https://nfl.community/c/fantasyfootball 1 1 2634 86155
https://nfl.community/c/nfl 18 3 1724 69935
https://level-up.zone/c/leagueoflegends 1 1 5332 66877
https://soccer.forum/c/main 125 5 5283 51504
https://hardware.watch/c/steamdeck 18 11 9834 47705
https://hardware.watch/c/apple 44 31 7475 44577
https://level-up.zone/c/overwatch 5 1 4513 36009
https://metacritics.zone/c/books 10 12 1229 35572
https://metacritics.zone/c/90dayfiance 3 1 977 32802
https://level-up.zone/c/dota2 1 1 3660 31626
https://soccer.forum/c/gunners 14 1 1057 31037
https://nba.space/c/lakers 2 1 979 24282
https://nba.space/c/raptors 1 1 950 23058
https://nfl.community/c/bears 4 2 777 22584
https://level-up.zone/c/minecraft 3 1 6192 20706
https://style.land/c/watches 23 6 3492 20236
https://nfl.community/c/steelers 2 1 1188 18696
https://nba.space/c/celtics 1 1 590 18306
https://nfl.community/c/jets 1 1 929 18032
https://gearhead.town/c/cars 9 1 825 17606
https://soccer.forum/c/premierleague 15 2 772 17318
https://gearhead.town/c/electricvehicles 20 1 1108 16789
https://nba.space/c/heat 1 1 651 16104
https://nfl.community/c/vikings 1 1 1298 15781
https://nba.space/c/sixers 1 1 727 15452
https://nfl.community/c/49ers 1 1 724 15277
https://metacritics.zone/c/invincible 2 1 2016 15238
[–] loganberryq@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Don't let your dreams be Menes. Copy some posts elsewhere as your own if you have to?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The mirror service from alien.top was disabled earlier today.

Now all I can do is say "something something be the change you want to see" and PLEASE HELP:

  • Go to https://fediverser.network and let's create a comprehensive map of lemmy communities for all the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of niche subreddits.
  • Let people on reddit know that they can easily migrate by going to https://portal.alien.top and connecting their Reddit account.
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can try. I'm going to aim for once a week. Its not that I don't like reddit posts. The problem is they are to frequent and not clearly marked as reddit

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am tired of Reddit reposts

/Gestures broadly at this whole instance

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 11 months ago

The mirror bots from alien.top are already disabled.