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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[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has been absolutely beyond infuriating I can't even block it properly from Connect. Agreed this is nothing but pollution spam

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Server admins should block stuff like this

[–] antik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which we did at LW. They started spamming some communities with this and we defederated.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

pretty cool, same on feddit.de :)