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alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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/[email protected]

https://lemm.ee/u/[email protected]

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] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but which community on which instance, seriously are you trying to seem so dense? How to make this easy for normies?

People come to lemmy.world but the best community for topic XYZ might not be here so this is the whole point of ALL.

Just because you don't do something doesn't mean there is no point, your viewpoint is obviously a minority view.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which community on which instance (...) lemmy.world but the best community for topic XYZ might not be here.

Check "All" to see all communities and subscribe to the ones that might be interesting to you.