this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 [email protected] but /r/StarWarsAndor doesn't, and /r/starwars doesn't find [email protected]), 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 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] aeharding 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sethal 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] RegalPotoo 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Eggz 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tygr 4 points 1 year ago

Settings > Migrate Subreddits > Tap multireddit > paste.