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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 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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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

What if lemmy starts dumping its posts on reddit? That might be interesting

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You can see some more discussion about the implementation on a past !fediverse@lemmy.world thread here:

https://lemmy.ca/post/10085786