Fediverser Portal: update to my fediverser project, people now can migrate away from reddit by signing up to the mirror instance directly. (portal.alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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So, I know that my project fediverser has received quite a bit of criticism and its flagship instance alien.top has been quite controversial, but I hope that this update will help people understand the whole project better, which is more than "just yet-another repost bot".

Today I am launching the "Fediverser Portal". The idea is simple: given that alien.top is a instance to be the home of reddit mirror accounts, the portal can let actual reddit users to sign up to the Lemmy instance using OAuth. Registrations are closed on the Lemmy side, and the only way to sign up is by using "Login with Reddit". When the user successfully authorizes the login, then the account is created on the Lemmy side with the same reddit username. Also important, the system can also get the list of subscribed subreddits from the user and we can then subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy instances automatically.

I believe this can make migration a lot easier, because people will not only avoid the "how do I sign up" part, they will even login and have some content already available in their feed.

As usual, don't hesitate to give your most honest feedback.

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[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I admire the initiative of bringing Reddit users to Lemmy, you are asking for way too many permissions, my dude.

submit links and comments from my account

read my DMs and send DMs from my account

keep these permissions indefinitely

I wanted to check out your project, but there is no way in hell I am agreeing to that lol. Chances are you don't even need all of those. Also, I see that apparently Fediverser is open source. You might want to point that out on the portal.alien.top site, as that might make people more keen on trusting you with their Reddit accounts

[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it is requesting a lot of things because it's part of the roadmap to actually do them. The next release will have two-way communication, to let people respond to a reddit mirror and send a message to the original redditor.

Keep in mind that the goal of this project is to let people completely replace their reddit usage with their fediverse account, and that will need to let people (for some time) bridge conversations betwern the two platforms.

I will eventually change this so that the reqiests for the actions will be separate, one for connecting and getting the subreddits, another to ask for permission to send messages. I just didn't get the time to do it "properly", yet.

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago

I understand. If it was up to me I would consider the permission settings a priority, as agreeing to all of that can be a pretty big deal for some people (I know it is for me). Some users may be willing to go all the way, but many might be gelous or scared of losing their Reddit accounts or even giving access to them to what, in their eyes, would be a complete stranger.

Anyway, as I said, the idea itself is cool. Hopefully your project can be a gateway to the Fediverse for many Redditors, as the enshittification goes on.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I actually can tell you: i have 11 people that declined the request vs 135 that accepted, and you are the 3rd that mentioned rejecting it due to the permissions being too aggressive.

But I will bump it up in my backlog. It's just something that I wanted to avoid doing until I have actual users in the platform and get some actual validation.

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago

Wow ok. Well that was just one man's opinion, if you have numbers on who is fine with that kind of access and who isn't then by all means keep going with your schedule. Maybe I'm just too cautious and my perspective is skewed because of that.