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

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.

17 comments

  • 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.

    • 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.

      • 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.

  • 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.

    • 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.

      • Oh wow, that is extremely important info missing from the post. So it's a list of "recommended alternatives" for subreddits, except deliberately populated with bots instead of recommending the places where real people are?

        I'm sure there's a use-case for this that I just can't see, but it should probably be communicated better because your description (comparing this to sub.rehab etc) definitely suggests these are real communities and that's pretty misleading.

  • How does the propose alternative community thing work? It looks like I'm making a new community rather than linking to an existing one

    • 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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