I know that the fediverser project is quite a bit controversial due to the mirroring bots and how they were being used on alien.top, but today I’d like to talk about two other pieces of functionality which I believe have been ignored and eclipsed by the mirrors:

  • The ability for users to signup to the lemmy instance by connecting via their Reddit account.
  • The ability for instance admins to create a custom map of subreddit-to-lemmy communities, which can be used to auto-subscribe users who are registering via Reddit.

I think that these two pieces can really help solve the problem of user onboarding. Because it works as an extra service along with Lemmy, no changes in the core service are needed. For users, the possibility of starting an account on Lemmy and get a list of interesting content right away can reduce friction and would hopefully get more people to talk about it.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from the admins of the topic-focused instances, as (I believe) would have an easier way to reach out to the people that are closer to their interests. So, apologies in advance for the mass-tagging, here are the ones that I found on join-lemmy:

To reiterate, this has nothing to do with the bots or mirrors deployed on alien.top. I’m only asking who would be interested in adding the functionality to allow user registration via Reddit OAuth. In case of any questions, feel free to ask here or reach out via matrix.

  • Fanaticus OneEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    Sounds like a fun coding project. Go ahead and build it! I’m always in favor of more discoverability.

    It also sounds like something that would belong on join-lemmy or another standalone service. Not sure where us instance admins come into play.

      • Fanaticus OneEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        Sorry, I may be misunderstanding then. How will you integrate fediverser into the lemmy registration process? I don’t think I understand your vision here.

        • @rglullisOPMAEnglish
          2•6 months ago

          The best way to understand it is by signing up to alien.top via the portal.

          alien.top is running the fediverser services alongside with lemmy code. These services provide the following:

          • An “admin” webapp that can be used by instance admins to manage the reddit-to-lemmy map and the mirror bots.
          • (Optional for those that want to mirror content) Services to pull content from reddit and push to Lemmy according to the rules defined the reddit-to-lemmy map.

          The fediverser.network website is a separate thing, where I’m trying to build a full reddit-to-lemmy map, which could then be “cloned” by the admins running lemmy+fediverser instances.