Migrate Subreddits

PSA: You should know that Settings > Migrate Subreddits exists. All you do is login to your old Reddit account, copy a “multireddit” link, paste it in Voyager and you’ll be able to search the fediverse for those topics/communities to subscribe to.

You may find communities that are missing here if you’d like to run/manage your very own community on a topic you enjoy.

Hope this helps. I just found this feature today and subscribed to a bunch of communities.

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freamon@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Neat find. Thank you.

Obviously, it can only search one way, so subreddits that are combinations of words only find communities named exactly the same (e.g /r/andor finds !cassianandor@feddit.nl but /r/StarWarsAndor doesn't, and /r/starwars doesn't find !star_wars@lemmy.world), but given how many communities are named the same, that's not much of an issue (and it can always be supplemented by manual searching, of course).

Tygr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

I noticed this as well. I really appreciated that this was even there. Totally forgot some subreddits that were picked up with this feature.

Kaan@lemmy.kweb.ovh · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Just a reminder, If you get an error while trying to search communities with this feature, you may have hit the rate limit of the server.

I was using lemmy.world to find instances for my own instance and almost every other search gave me an error. Waiting about a minute was enough.

Tygr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Interesting, that's likely to have happened to me and I didn't realize it. Thank you!

aeharding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

It depends on your instance, too. lemmy.world has very generous rate limits

danielton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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sethal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Does this give Lemmy or WefWef (Voyager) your Reddit credentials?

Paul@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 3y

No, it just takes a multi Reddit link that you paste, and for each subreddit, it will search for alternatives across the Fediverse.

You can select them one-by-one and subscribe to any you fancy.

natflow@apollo.town · 3 pts · 3y
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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

No - you copy-paste a link that encodes the list of subreddits you were subscribed to, you could copy it from another machine entirely if you wanted

freamon@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3y
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Eggz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I’m just now trying this and nothing happens when I do it. Does it take time to work?

freamon@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 3y
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dustin@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What do you mean by "paste it in Voyager?" I couldn't find anything fediverse related googling for that.

Tygr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Settings > Migrate Subreddits > Tap multireddit > paste.