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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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[–] freamon@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years 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 !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).

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

[–] sethal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (4 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.

[–] natflow@apollo.town 2 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.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 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

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

No it's just a string of text: "https://old.reddit.com/r/subreddit1+subreddit2+subreddit3"

[–] 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 10 months ago

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

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