@lemmy_support you really need to count users in a saner way. There is no way that alien.top has over half a million user accounts.

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    1 year ago

    Yes and no. Each one of those users represents a real reddit user and their comments in the bridge threads.

    So a bot isn’t creating the content, a bot is mirroring the content into Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      Yes but if I reply to anyone there’s never going to be a response, because it’s 1-way.

      So it will flood lemmy with a load of content that effectively stunts actual engagement because people have to spend time sifting through it all to find where the real users are. The end result being that a subset of users don’t bother and potentially give up on lemmy all together, which has a snowball effect of further reducing real engagement.

      Reddit is on Reddit, leave it there.

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        1 year ago

        They’re actively working on bi-directional.

        I agree, it’s not ready for general consumption, until it’s bi-directional