Let me start by thanking everyone that has joined https://fediverser.network and the ones who are already helping to categorize and create a map between subreddits and the recommended Lemmy alternatives. Y'all are amazing and I hope we can keep it up.

To keep in mind that the main goal of this whole project is to help people on reddit to migrate quickly and effortlessly to Lemmy, I was thinking on what could be done once we have the majority of the niche subreddits mapped out. I thought about the idea of creating "Community Ambassadors", which would be basically people interested in "turning" other redditors from their specific communities to Lemmy.

Basically that would require you to signup to Fediverser to indicate what community you are focusing on and how many people you are willing to reach out per day. The system could then collect the top posts of that subreddit every day and let you trigger a (custom, personalized) DM to the people telling them about the alternative Lemmy community that exists with a link to alien.top's portal to make one-click migration.

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.

cross-posted from: https://communick.news/post/267127

This is an announcement of not just a single instance, but of a whole family of instances that are each focused on a different topic/interest.

• https://soccer.forum (Football for those not on North America)
• https://nba.space (Basketball)
• https://nfl.community (American Football)
• https://matchpoint.zone (Tennis)
• metacritics.zone (pop-culture, movies, tv shows, games)
• blockchained.world (web3)
• selfhosted.forum (for those who are run their own services: homelab, technology for devops, etc)
• style.land (brands, fashion, consumer items)
• hi-fi.community (audio)
• viewfinder.pro (photography)
• hardware.watch (Tech news, product reviews, PC modders...)
• gearhead.town (Car/Motor Enthusiasts)
• netheads.online (VoIP)

These lemmy instances are meant to be only destination hubs. They are not open for registration, but I am planning to let people decide what communities should be opened on those instances. I've created those because it seems that a lot of people are signing up to an instance and then fail at discovering the content.

The idea is that if we have instances that explicitly about a focused group, it will be easier for new comers to start out. It would also mean that the instances themselves are less likely to get invovled in moderation/federations issues: spammers or bad actors of any type will be reported as soon as possible and hopefully admins from the instances will focus on the instance that is originating the spam instead of the community that was a target of the attacker.

Any ideas of communities for these new instances are more than welcome, and if would like to help with moderation I'd would be eternally grateful.

This is an announcement of not just a single instance, but of a whole family of instances that are each focused on a different topic/interest.

• https://soccer.forum (Football for those not on North America)
• https://nba.space (Basketball)
• https://nfl.community (American Football)
• https://matchpoint.zone (Tennis)
• https://metacritics.zone (pop-culture, movies, tv shows, games)
• https://blockchained.world (web3)
• https://selfhosted.forum (for those who are run their own services: homelab, technology for devops, etc)
• https://style.land (brands, fashion, consumer items)
• https://hi-fi.community (audio)
• https://viewfinder.pro (photography)
• https://hardware.watch (Tech news, product reviews, PC modders...)
• https://gearhead.town (Car/Motor Enthusiasts)
• https://netheads.online (VoIP)

These lemmy instances are meant to be only destination hubs. They are not open for registration, but I am planning to let people decide what communities should be opened on those instances. I've created those because it seems that a lot of people are signing up to an instance and then fail at discovering the content.

The idea is that if we have instances that explicitly about a focused group, it will be easier for new comers to start out. It would also mean that the instances themselves are less likely to get invovled in moderation/federations issues: spammers or bad actors of any type will be reported as soon as possible and hopefully admins from the instances will focus on the instance that is originating the spam instead of the community that was a target of the attacker.

Any ideas of communities for these new instances are more than welcome, and if would like to help with moderation I'd would be eternally grateful.

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.

Today FUTO released an application called Grayjay for Android-based mobile phones. Louis Rossmann introduced the application in a video (YouTube link). Grayjay as an application is very promising, but there is one point I take issue with: Grayjay is not an Open Source application. In the video Louis explains his reason behind the custom license, and while I do agree with his reason, I strong disagree with his method. In this post I will explain what Open Source means, how Grayjay does not meet the criteria, why this is an issue, and how it can be solved.