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. (communick.news)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] imaqtpie 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I misspoke, what I meant was that smaller instances are more likely to have issues, and almost all of the large instances are general purpose.

Also, I believe it would be healthier to federation if we had a cleaner separation between “servers that are for communities” and “servers that are home to the end people”. [...] It’s also a lot easier to say “we will block instance X because of their communities” then to say “we will block instance Y because we don’t like some of the people there”, which leads to some people getting caught in a cross-fire.

I totally agree and I think the model you are describing is the natural evolution of this platform. Lemmy.myserv.one is a good example of a server that doesn't host local content but simply hosts user accounts for browsing the wider threadiverse. Striving towards that ideal is definitely a worthwhile goal.

However, it will take a long time to build towards that type of structure, and in the meantime we have to make the most of the current, largely haphazard scattering of servers/communities. I would just emphasize that the priority should be that recommended communities are (1) active, (2) well-moderated, (3) on topic. If those three criteria are met by multiple communities, then by all means, prioritize the communities on topic-specific instances. But I would caution against prioritizing other factors above the three that I mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months 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 [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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 💡