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alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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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[–] squiblet@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The author of Fediverser says that eventually it will be a 2-way crossposter between reddit and Lemmy, but I don't see the use in that - so it makes lemmy into reddit? Or like the entire site into a 3rd party reddit app, which reddit doesn't want and would never tolerate? For now I was like okay, it sounded like the posts were from people who explicitly signed up, but then it seems that no, they automatically make accounts for posts on subs they're duplicating which is like, what?? The people on reddit don't even know that their posts are being duplicated to lemmy, so how does that help?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The theory is the redditors can claim the bot that was created to ease onboarding.

Whether that has ever happened I can't say.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It hasn't and the project seems abandoned.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The developer responded to a similar post here recently: https://lemmy.ml/post/8740170

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Awesome, thanks.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do bridges make Matrix into Discord, Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp, *gasp* Slack, FB Messenger, imessage, Mattermost, Mumble, *gasp* Google Chat, Instagram, Linkedin, xitter, Skype, SMTP, IRC, KakaoTalk, *heavy gasp* GroupMe, Line, Wechat, Tencent QQ and Jabber/XMPP? Phew. Or does it make entire federation into a 3rd party *insert list again* app, which *insert list except Signal, SMTP and IRC one more time* don't want and would never tolerate?