I’m the developer of Fediverser Project, which is a set of services to make it easy for people on Reddit to migrate to the Fediverse. It lets people use their Reddit credentials (OAuth) to sign up and create an account on a Lemmy server.
It also offers a cool onboarding feature: during signup, we can fetch the user’s subscribed subreddits, and we use this information to automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy (or Kbin/Mbin) community. This “subreddit -> fediverse group” map is crowdsourced and people can sign up if they want to contribute. The “main” site also provides a “Find an instance” feature: it can track all the servers that use the Fediverse software and redirect users to their closest instance.
To enable this service, the Lemmy admin needs to add a couple of docker services to their setup and needs to get their own Reddit API key (which is used only for authentication, so well within the rate limits and certainly not incurring any prices).
I’d really like to see aussie.zone becoming part of the network. I believe this would make it faster and simpler to get more people in the fediverse, and I’m willing to provide all the support and help needed to get the “country-based” services getting started with it.
Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
I definitely would like to see more people in general. Without it, you just can’t reach that critical mass where it’s possible to have meaningful conversations about niche topics. And that, far more than any other element, is what the value of Reddit is. The fact that /r/olympics daily megathreads get thousands of comments per day but !olympics@sh.itjust.works threads are lucky to reach 10 is a great example of what I mean. And I started those megathreads because I figured hey, it’s the gods damned Olympics. That’s got to be a broad enough topic to get some interest. And yet no. If something that big doesn’t even make it with this platform’s current size, what hope do you have of sharing your niche interests and getting good discussion?
Haha, i hadn’t even noticed !olympics@sh.itjust.works on my feeds damn! I wonder why that hasn’t gained traction?
If one of Frances special sports was a Linux Power User comp, i reckon that would’ve lit up lemmys Oympics megathreads! :p
I don’t know to be honest. A few of the image and news posts in that community have done pretty well, so I don’t think it’s a lack of interest in the subject matter. A bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, perhaps, since so far nearly all the comments have been mine with only two or three comments from others over the whole week?
Just had a quick look, can’t believe it had all passed me by. 570 users isn’t nothing, especially sonce i’m thinking they all signed up in the last few weeks.
I did notice the Megathreads aren’t pinned, could that be making them less visible? I know i initially scrolled right passed them, and i’s specifically looking for them.
Yeah maybe, I dunno. Could be worth a shot. I’ll have to reach out to the mods, if they’re still active.