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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that the people that came to Lemmy during the protests were willing to put their words into actions and leave Reddit,

I did

I didn't mind some of your bots as I theory maybe one of the communities would be useful. But none of the ones I'd have wanted seem to appear in my feed.

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

You have to ask the project creator if you want to add a community, they would set up the bridge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wasn't going to be responsible for flooding everyone's all feed even further.