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/[email protected]

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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[–] woelkchen 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now let’s give users the ability to block domains like on Mastodon

That's AFAIK already implemented, 0.19 just isn't out, yet.

and everyone is happy.

There will always be the people who try to police others. Just look how even on Mastodon seemingly every instance has blocked Threads despite the fact that A.) users can block instances on their own and B.) Threads doesn't even have federation, yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My instance upgraded to 0.19.0-rc and I am so excited to clear out my blocked communities and block the whole lot instead. Can't wait to see how it goes without the hexbear and .ml nonsense.