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alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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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[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 9 months ago

There are only a few communities (650+ that I know of) dedicated to mirroring reddit content to the Lemmyverse. This is part of a bigger problem, not just this specific user's system.

If bots started spamming fediverse@lemmy.world I don't agree that the best course of action would be for users to block the community.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago

I was talking specifically about the ones in Fediverser. In this case, it's quite simple to block the communities.

If bots started spamming fediverse@lemmy.world I don’t agree that the best course of action would be for users to block the community.

That's indeed another issue, and I agree with you that bots shouldn't be able to spam there.

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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