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.
They have openly stated that they don’t care about doing things through legal channels. This is “war”. See this comment.
Also, there’s this monolith of a post which - if I’m reading it correctly - suggests that Redditors can use some form to “claim” the bot accounts and become real Lemmy users, which is the ultimate goal of the project.
I really can’t believe they’re openly admitting to all this stuff on a public forum LOL. Open and shut case if Reddit goes nuclear.
edit: Did the bots swarm this post to get it downvoted? Hmm. I just linked to stuff the author of the project has posted. Hey, don’t shoot the messenger!
And you know reddit and Conde Nast will actually do this, because everyone here already knows that Steve Huffman is very, very petty.