So, I know that my project fediverser has received quite a bit of criticism and its flagship instance alien.top has been quite controversial, but I hope that this update will help people understand the whole project better, which is more than "just yet-another repost bot".

Today I am launching the "Fediverser Portal". The idea is simple: given that alien.top is a instance to be the home of reddit mirror accounts, the portal can let actual reddit users to sign up to the Lemmy instance using OAuth. Registrations are closed on the Lemmy side, and the only way to sign up is by using "Login with Reddit". When the user successfully authorizes the login, then the account is created on the Lemmy side with the same reddit username. Also important, the system can also get the list of subscribed subreddits from the user and we can then subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy instances automatically.

I believe this can make migration a lot easier, because people will not only avoid the "how do I sign up" part, they will even login and have some content already available in their feed.

As usual, don't hesitate to give your most honest feedback.

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[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I created an alien.top account by following the link posted. I signed in to my reddit account and gave it permission to access it. It said I just sign in with my Reddit name and it gave me a passord. Then I signed into my alien.top account and it said I wasn't subscribed to any communities.

https://imgur.com/a/E7c3v6N

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, I see... When you completed the login, you should see a list of your subreddits and what is the recommended lemmy instance. Was there anything showing there?

(If you want you can send me a DM with your reddit username, it will be user to check this)

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is all I see when I log in.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You are looking at the "Local" tab. There is no community on alien.top itself.

Please check the "Subscribed" tab to see what your subscriptions. If you still don't see anything, then it means that there was no lemmy community that was corresponding to any of the subreddits you follow on reddit.

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It shows nothing in the subscribed tab. I subscribe to 89 subs on Reddit. I know some of them have counterparts because I've found them on my own.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're misunderstanding. The mapping reddit and lemmy communities is still being built and depends on the admin of the "portal". It can very well be that it hasn't found communities to recommend to you yet because they are missing from this database.

Can you check the portal site and send me the list of subreddits you are seeing?

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see the list now. 2 subreddits show as having similar Lemmy communities. I know there are at least 4 more that I've found on my own. You're saying that they will eventually make the database?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on me building it and I could use some help, but yeah.