Help to crowdsource data for a comprehensive map of Reddit -> Fediverse group?
Help to crowdsource data for a comprehensive map of Reddit -> Fediverse group?
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!
If you want me to help out, I’m gonna need a more mobile friendly design. I can’t use laptop due to disability.
I will see if I can some improvements. In the meantime, can you please tell me if it's possible to work by switching to Desktop mode and landscape?
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.
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.
Ah good to know, shame it's been left by the wayside a bit. Was super useful in the early days
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.
I've added some alternatives to subreddits but I also saw that my Lemmy communities aren't categorized yet. Is there a way for me to do that or do you have to do that?
Thank you! Communities can be managed on https://fediverser.network/communities. You can add them by going to https://fediverser.network/communities/create.
This is a great project! I'll try to help out later (site seems to be down at the moment).
I do have some questions/concerns with this part:
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.
- Who do you imagine would create the majority of these requests?
- How would the "best participating instance" be determined?
- How long would this process take?
We've deliberated for several days on the "best instance" for a community, and getting instance admin approval can also take time in some cases. This seems to be at odds with the "right away" goal.
Even if a community is created, it needs people to grow it, making posts and contributing to discussion. Creating new communities is not the challenge. Growing them is.