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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[–] rglullis -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The thread has nothing to do with it. What it has to do with it is that today I got 90 real people signing up to alien.top via reddit and one of them is asking "hey, can we get federation with LW now"?

[–] antik@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] rglullis -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

User counts are only for active users. You should know that quite well.

In any case, please go ahead and make it clear: if you want to act like an arbiter of success to determine if alien.top should be re-federated, how many users should it have?