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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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[–] Kaan@lemmy.kweb.ovh 3 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] freamon@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I wish they hadn't removed the option to use your Apollo backup. I installed Apollo and made a backup before Apollo shut down, and I still have that file, but I no longer have a Reddit account.

[–] Eggz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] sethal@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] Paul@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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

[–] natflow@apollo.town 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nope. The multireddit link itself contains the subreddit names. All Voyager has to do is simple string parsing to get them.

[–] dustin@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tygr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Settings > Migrate Subreddits > Tap multireddit > paste.