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alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Whoever is in charge of that instance, STOP.

It's an instance that crossposts posts from Reddit, except it also makes a new user for each Reddit account it came from. So if /u/hello123 made a post, it makes that post under a new account called hello123. That makes it impossible to block posting bots.

Not only that, it makes posts look like they're posted by real people, with many question and text posts being copied as well. I was very confused as to what these posts were until I realized they're crossposts.

Examples:

https://alien.top/post/263029

https://lemm.ee/u/pocalyuko@alien.top

https://lemm.ee/u/ItzMeRocket@alien.top

https://lemm.ee/u/CaptainCapp-n@alien.top

I strongly believe Lemmy isn't the place for mirroring content from other websites. You can host your own alternate Reddit frontend like LibReddit, there's no reason to spam the posts to everyone using Lemmy just because 5 people asked for it. Not to mention there are already enough instances mirroring posts, this is getting obnoxious.

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[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I might not be understanding the post- correctly. From my perspective using connect I can go to alien.top and then select a post that's on that instance and then the instance will change from alien.top to the self-hosted one, which is confusing to me as a user. This happens even when I tap on the alien top instance as a whole.

Is this just because the second instance is the only instance that federates with alien top? If that's the case I think it might be a good idea to merge the two for less confusion and allow better moderation for users client side

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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