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.

  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I had the same thought process as you did!

    When I thought it was just people cloning their own accounts, I didn’t see why anyone was against it.

    Once I saw that the bots weren’t made from a request duplicate made the the original user, and that they almost exclusively post outside of Alien.top, I was very against their existence.