Fediverser Network: crowdsourced map of reddit-to-lemmy communities

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rglullis@communick.news⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

The original projects meant to help finding out the Lemmy communities sub.rehab and redditmigration were not really kept up-to-date after the first wave of protests. To avoid bitrot and to make sure that the community can help keep this up to date, I’m launching today fediverser.network.

At the moment, it is a simple browser of subreddits and lists of recommended alternatives. It can also let users sign-in with their reddit credentials so that they can get a list of the mapped communities specific to their subscriptions.

There is a lot more to be done, as I want to use this tool to help me map out all the niche communities that are missing on Lemmy and eventually have a 1:1 map for those that want to leave reddit entirely.

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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Great tool that should make migrating from Reddit smoother. I submitted quite a bit to the other sites but stopped when the updates dried up.

I am curious as to the criteria you use when displaying a list of my subscribed subs as it’s not complete but some of the subs not included are larger than some that are.

Anyway, good work and keep us in the loop.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When you log in via reddit, we should be able to get the list of all (non-user) subreddits that you are a subscriber. You can then filter the results by mapped (i.e, there is already at least one recommendation) and subscribed to take a look at only the subreddits you follow and presumably can help.
  
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  - Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    When you log in via reddit, we should be able to get the list of all (non-user) subreddits that you are a subscriber.
    
    It’s not anywhere near a complete list. I’ll run through it later and get some examples.
    
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thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Confusion. Is there some way to suggest communities without logging in with a Reddit account? Lots of people deleted their Reddit accounts…

Also I checked out the recommended alternative for my NFL team and it seems to be some kind of weird bot community populated entirely by bots…this might need some moderation.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The bots are all mirrors from reddit accounts and are all an integral part of the fediverser project. The idea is to let the users on reddit to take over “their” bot accounts and make them organic. This overall map will let them be automatically subscribed to all the subreddits they used to follow.
  
  So, even if the community seems only filled with bots, please hang in there. We need as many “real users” there to have network effects going.
  
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Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Brilliant idea. I wish I noticed this when I first came here from Reddit.

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infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was looking for something like this! Am I using it wrong or does it only have 7 entries at the moment?

Anyway, it would be cool to have a feature where I can paste a list of subreddits and get a list of matching lemmy communities (where available).

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- 0x4E4F@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You login via your Reddit account and it fetches your subscribed subs, you can suggest alternatives afterwards on the right 😉.
  
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  - Zitronensaft@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not all of us kept our Reddit accounts though.
    
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Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can only suggest 1 community for each subreddit? for r/horrormovies I was gonna suggest !horror@lemmy.world and !horrormovies@lemmy.ml

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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How does the propose alternative community thing work? It looks like I’m making a new community rather than linking to an existing one

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, the interface is still confusing. Community proposals are meant to collect information about subreddits that do not have any alternative. I am still working on the form to let people simply point to a community that already exist.
  
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  - otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah ok gotcha
    
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infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It would be cool if I could tell it which instance I’m on and then have it change the links to the Lemmy communities so that they are being accessed from my instance. This makes it much easier to interact and subscribe.

Thank you for this tool!

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