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.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    117·
    11 months ago

    Until these are built into the UI, how is a user supposed to find them when they just want to start using Lemmy?

    By going to /communities and subscribing to the communities that might be of interest?

    Seriously, there is no excuse to justify browsing by all.

    • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Yeah but which community on which instance, seriously are you trying to seem so dense? How to make this easy for normies?

      People come to lemmy.world but the best community for topic XYZ might not be here so this is the whole point of ALL.

      Just because you don’t do something doesn’t mean there is no point, your viewpoint is obviously a minority view.