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://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.
So, just to be clear: the project was from the very first step meant to help people migrate from Reddit and to join Lemmy. Now that it is starting to actually achieve its goals, you now want to penalize it for its success?
If you call this thread a success you are delusional. You’re condescending to everyone that doesn’t agree with your viewpoints. Which isn’t really new to me
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”?
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?