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.
I don’t disagree, but burdening the users, especially new ones, with all these common tasks will make Lemmy a pretty dismal place.
ah yes the great burden of freedom and control. Best to alleviate the common user of such drudgery. Seriously though for me I like the control to be at the bottom and then tools to simply. Like subscribing to block lists or such. I mean im someone who often does not use an ad-bloc but always uses no-script.