I've seen bots promoting Replit on Steam forums of indie games.
If this is the way they are marketing their product, I don't see it as having a future. What I've seen in the Dwarf Fortress forums alone makes me want to avoid the company with a 10' pole.
Hey, Replit employee here. I'm pretty sure this isn't us (definitely isn't our marketing team's MO AFAIK). Can you email me some examples at james @ replit dot com so I can look into this?
Let us not forget how replit tried to cancel Riju (an open source project from one of the early devs which does something similar)
Edit: looks like they succeeded or the author moved on
https://radian.statuspage.io/
It's still up, it only supports IPv6 so that may be why you can't get to it.
I find exactly one post about Replit in the DF Steam forums and it's definitely not from a bot account. Players who have just discovered vibe coding love to tell devs "just" to use something like they've been enlightened.
I found two, but it looks like the topic was deleted. Kagi had it partially cached as a search result[0]. The first thread in that list seems a bit more ...pushy than the second thread. Though I think you're still right - was probably just a new coder who was excited about what they found.
[0]: https://files.catbox.moe/oepmri.png