Fediverser Network

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Fediverser is a project to build all the required tools to help people leave legacy social networks and to join the fediverse. Currently, it provides a web application that runs alongside a traditional Lemmy service to provide the following functionality:

Create a map between subreddits and the corresponding Lemmy communities
Let users signup to the Lemmy instance directly by using their reddit information, and automatically subscribe them to the lemmy communities provided by the internal reddit <-> lemmy map
(Optional): use the subreddit to lemmy map to run a mirroring tool that can take posts and comments from the subreddits and place them in the corresponding lemmy community.

The Fediverser Network is a website that aims to crowdsource the information used by the different fediverser deployments and to coordinate all users and instance admins.

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Suggestion: prioritize topic-based instances as the recommended lemmy communities. (self.fediverser_network)

submitted 1 year ago by rglullis to c/fediverser_network

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When building out the database of recommended Lemmy communities, I think it makes the most sense to prioritize the communities that belong to instances focused on a specific topic over communities that are based in a "general" instance, even if currently the community is smaller in the topic-specific instance.

For example, for an user coming from reddit and signing up via a "fediversed" instance (like alien.top) it would make more sense if they see that the anime subreddits are on ani.social, the rpg/board games are on ttrpg.network, the programming communities are on programming.dev, the basketball ones are on nba.space, the NSFW communities are on lemmynsfw, etc, etc...

This will also avoid the issue that I am currently seeing where some communities have multiple entries in the recommended database due to the initial migration where each user was just trying to replicate their favorite subreddits in their own server they signed up for.

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[–] rglullis 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Striving towards that ideal is definitely a worthwhile goal.

I'm glad we share the same view. A lot of the work on communick is to do exactly this:

communick.news is the home of users.
topic-based instances are created as needed on the !communick_news_network@communick.news

[–] imaqtpie 3 points 1 year ago

Huh, I've even got an account here and I didn't realize things worked like that. Very cool, keep up the hard work and innovation 💡