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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has been absolutely beyond infuriating I can't even block it properly from Connect. Agreed this is nothing but pollution spam

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Server admins should block stuff like this

[–] antik 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which we did at LW. They started spamming some communities with this and we defederated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

pretty cool, same on feddit.de :)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI: https://communick.news/post/451025

The mirror bots now are disabled, how about reconsidering the block?

[–] antik 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about no?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, just to be clear: the project was from the very first step meant to help people migrate from Reddit and to join Lemmy. Now that it is starting to actually achieve its goals, you now want to penalize it for its success?

[–] antik 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you call this thread a success you are delusional. You're condescending to everyone that doesn't agree with your viewpoints. Which isn't really new to me

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thread has nothing to do with it. What it has to do with it is that today I got 90 real people signing up to alien.top via reddit and one of them is asking "hey, can we get federation with LW now"?

[–] antik 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

User counts are only for active users. You should know that quite well.

In any case, please go ahead and make it clear: if you want to act like an arbiter of success to determine if alien.top should be re-federated, how many users should it have?