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] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you trying to access via http or https?

If you open https://portal.alien.top, do you see the same message?

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

I typed “alien.top” into my safari and that is what I got.

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

Then why does the URL show portal.alien.top?

I honestly don't know what to tell you. I'd like to investigate, but both Chrome and Firefox are normal.

This is the portal page

This is alien.top

I also have ublock installed, and it shows zero elements being blocked.