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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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 75 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I'm honestly so sick of bots on this website. Nobody even comments, it's just junk that then dilutes the actual communities posting in c/all. I'd love to have a way to block all memes, porn, and bot posts just so I could actually discover new communities here instead of AI redhead pussy, bots crossposting stale linux memes, and old reddit help threads with 0 comments because they are asking for help on a different site.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, why would anyone comment in a crosspost. Feels weird when the OP is not even here. I started blocking communities that mostly crosspost.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

Right? There is an argument to be made for bot-submitted content to be used for jumpstarting news-oriented communities (the kind that are essentially RSS feeds with comments). But anything else just feels like speaking into the void.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can disable bot accounts in your settings so at least those don't show up in your feed.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but this also blocks helpful bots, for example link converters. I'd like to block the x-post spam but keep the utility from other bots.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, understandable. On Lemmy World we defederate with those kind of instances because we know most of our users don't want that stuff.

Luckily the next version of Lemmy is around the corner and then you should be able to block those instances yourself.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can block both NSFW and bot posts in your account settings. I do the former, but I don't want to miss out on the good bots so I just block the bad ones individually. Then, memes usually stay in the meme communities and it is quite easy to block those.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Huh, good to know. I might actually do that. I usually use an app, so I dunno if those settings are exposed in-app.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

They should apply everywhere :)

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

They do

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

there are plenty of communities with useful content that are also plagued with pointless unfunny garbage memes. it seems that there's no way to filter image posts on any client that I've seen. I don't know if it's an issue with Lemmy as a platform but it seems kind of strange to me since the client knows which posts are image and non-image links

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I would very much like to be able to block image posts

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think the Summit client for android can do this

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

Very cool thanks!

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

hell yes it does thanks for the gold kind stranger