I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.
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.