I’m resuming my work on Fediverser, and I need as much help as I can get to build the Recommended community map. This crowdsourced data will be one the key points for instance admins that want to make use of the Fediverser services, and it will help immensely for people who want to migrate away from Reddit.
How does it work? The front-page gives you a list of all the subreddits with its corresponding recommendations of Lemmy communities. The ones that have no recommendation go to the top of the page. One example. You can open the page for that subreddit entry and make all the suggestions that you think are appropriate.
Every suggestion goes into a queue which I can then review and merge to the main database.
One of the things that I will be adding soon is the ability to request a community to be created. For subreddits which there is no equivalent community, people will be able to fill a form (similar to the “Create Community” page on Lemmy’s default client) which will check what is the best participating instance in the network, and if the instance admins approve, the instance can be created right away.
How can you help?
- Categorize the subreddits that have no entry.
- Reaching out to the mods of the uncategorized subreddits
- Creating community requests for the ones that are still missing.
Thank you!
IMHO, the APIpocalypse resulted in too many communities that died on the vine and discouraged their creators and few visitors. Funneling that energy into fewer, more general communities to build up views and conversations strikes me as a a necessary forerunner to a massive “Cambrian Explosion” type of thing. Subreddits, for the most part, naturally evolved because there was already a critical mass of users interested in the topic, not because the sub existed first and attracted the users. What would you think about a different approach to collect various subreddits and file them under healthier lemmy communities that are not one-for-one, but still relevant?
Sub : Community
- askreddit : asklemmy
- amitheasshole : asklemmy
- explainlikeimfive : asklemmy
- gaming : gaming
- pcmasterrace : gaming
- minecraft : gaming
- etc, etc.
If you want me to help out, I’m gonna need a more mobile friendly design. I can’t use laptop due to disability.
Is there way to help without signing into reddit and granting account access?
Great question and thank you for your interesting in helping. Authentication via Reddit OAuth does not give “access” to the account. Reddit will send only your username and the list of subreddits you have subscribed to. I’ve set it up this way to help build out the list of subreddits.
In any case, you are right that other authentication methods are needed. I’ll change the setup soon to allow “traditional” sign-up, and I can also add other signup methods.
That would be good, a lot of people deleted their reddit accounts because of Spez & Co.
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that it’s now possible to sign-up to Fediverser with more traditional methods. :)
Cool! Looks like it’s returning a 500 error at the moment though.
Sorry! I was overconfident with a change. Please try again.
Yeah, totally understandable. I was going to suggest you to create a throwaway account, but then I realized that I am actually considering denying access to newly created accounts precisely to avoid bots and sockpuppets.
Seems similar to the work done by https://sub.rehab
sub.rehab is definitely the first, but it has not been active for quite a while, is not focused on fediverse groups (also list Discord as alternatives) and I reckon that our database is already larger than theirs.
