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.

  • Kaan@lemmy.kweb.ovhEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

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

  • freamon@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year 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.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

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

    • Paul@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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

    • Nat@apollo.townEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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·
    1 year ago

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