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.
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.
What do you mean by “paste it in Voyager?” I couldn’t find anything fediverse related googling for that.
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.
Interesting, that’s likely to have happened to me and I didn’t realize it. Thank you!
In this app (that this community is for and you’re presumably using), go to Settings, then Migrate Subreddits and press on the part that says ‘Multireddit link’ until the paste option comes up.
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).
