alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam - eviltoast

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.

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Or went with the “just go to lemmy.world” approach, got burned because it was struggling to deal with the influx of people and thought “Aw, Lemmy sucks”.

    How many times have I personally explained to you that it was the ddos not the influx of people. Every time you find some way to bash on LW and then you come ask for favors?

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      I’m sorry if I’m misrepresenting the reasons, but in practice what happened is that the largest instance was constantly offline and unresponsive.

      then you come ask for favors?

      Be transparent. You claimed that the instance needed to be defederated based on the mirror bots. Now the bots are gone and real users are coming (like I said they would) and suddenly this is you “making a favor”?

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Didn’t you ask us to make an exception for your bots when we defederated with alien.top almost two months ago? Special treatment AKA a favor, yes.

        Anyway you are always arguing in bad faith, just like when you were trying to spread the message that Lemmy World is too big and bad for the fediverse. It wasn’t for the fediverse, it was to push people to your (failing) hosting company. And you are still pushing that same narrative and play dumb when confronted.

        Be transparent he says.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          24·
          11 months ago

          Didn’t you ask us to make an exception for your bots when we defederated with alien.top almost two months ago?

          No, my exact question was “how many real users will it take for you to stop considering it a bot-instance only”.

          Lemmy World is too big and bad for the fediverse.

          My argument has always been that having one single instance controlling the majority of users is bad for decentralization. The fact that one of the LW mods can be so petty to the point of holding a block against another instance (when the alledged reasons for the block are no longer valid) is kinda proving my point.

          It wasn’t for the fediverse, it was to push people to your (failing) hosting company.

          You didn’t see me criticizing lemm.ee, or beehaw, or programming.dev, or sdf.org, or feddit.*. None of them were working to monopolize the reddit migrants like LW. But sure, I am the one with ulterior motives.