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.

  •  Otter   ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English
    7•1 year ago

    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?

    •  rglullis   ( @rglullis@communick.news ) English
      5•1 year ago

      How does 2 way mirroring work?

      That will depend on a few things:

      • If it’s an user that has “converted” via alien.top’s portal, we can work as a real reddit client and send message on behalf of the user.
      • If the lemmy user is not on alien.top but wants to enable a two-way bridge, then we will have to do an authentication dance and send messages with passcodes to both reddit and lemmy.
      • If the user does not want a bridge, we can still send a message to the reddit thread via another bot.

      The last one would be the easiest to implement, but I’m avoiding releasing this because it might be taken down due to spam.