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I made a tool that transfers your reddit subscriptions to lemmy (github.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world
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One thing that annoyed me about moving to Lemmy was that I'd lose my subreddits and that looking for and joining communities on Lemmy would be tedious. So (logically) I spent 2 days writing a script, that gets a list of your subreddits from your reddit account and looks for communities with the same name on Lemmy. It also joins those communites. So all you have to do is download, enter your credentials and you're done.

https://github.com/induna-crewneck/Reddit-Lemmy-Migrator/

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

How does this work when you have different communities on different instances?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can access all instances from whichever server you are signing in from. Or am I misunderstanding your question?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They probably mean duplicate communities on different instances.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Why would that be an issue?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    because it is not unequivocal mapping and he asks how you deal with the situation where you have 10 possible replacements. do you just sign to all of them?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ah gotcha. It looks for the community on lemmy.world. It also searches for the community with the most subscribers. So for example you're looking for "videos" and that's on lemmy.world but also on lemmy.ml with more members, in this case you'd be subscribed to both.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Any way to make this compatible for kbin?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Probably, I looked through the code briefly and it seems like its automating a headless browser to grab the subs from reddit, checking them on lemmy and subbing to them. You can likely replace it with kbin as needed. This is a quick scroll through though, I may be missing something here

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because some of these communities are more official than others. For example, I modded /r/simpleliving and made !simpleliving@lemmy.ml, but !simpleliving@lemmy.world also exists. It would be a bit annoying if users were directed to the less-active and less-official community over the one I made just because it happens to be on lemmy.world.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's a fair point. In this case your lemmy.ml community would also be subscribed to, if it's any consolation.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    How does this work if lemmy.world isn't your home instance? Will the same local community + most subscribed federated community rule apply?

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