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There is actually a third point to this whole idea. Given that most Lemmy admins were not interested in being a home to the "mirrored" communities, I'm buildin

There is actually a third point to this whole idea. Given that most Lemmy admins were not interested in being a home to the "mirrored" communities, I'm building a set of different Lemmy instances that will be focused on specific niches or interests, such as: - https://soccer.forum, https://nba.space, https://nfl.community, https://matchpoint.zone (sport news, fan groups, discussion, etc) - https://metacritics.zone, https://roll20.top (pop-culture, movies, TV shows, games) - blockchained.world (web3) - https://selfhosted.forum (devops, homelab) - https://style.land (brands, fashion, consumer items) - https://hi-fi.community (audio), https://viewfinder.pro (photography) - https://hardware.watch (tech reviews and news, pc enthusiasts, etc) - https://gearhead.town (cars) - https://netheads.online (voip) These lemmy instances are meant to be only destination hubs. They are not open for registration, but I am planning to let people decide what communities should be opened on those instances. I've created those because it seems that a lot of people are signing up to an instance and then fail at discovering the content.

mdaniel 3y ago
clickable version (sport news fan groups discussion etc) https://soccer.forum https://soccer.forum https://nba.space https://nba.space https://nfl.community https://nfl.community https://matchpoint.zone https://matchpoint.zone --- (pop-culture movies TV shows games) https://metacritics.zone https://metacritics.zone https://roll20.top https://roll20.top --- https://blockchained.world https://blockchained.world (web3) https://selfhosted.forum https://selfhosted.forum (devops, homelab) https://style.land https://style.land (brands, fashion, consumer items) https://hi-fi.community https://hi-fi.community (audio) https://viewfinder.pro https://viewfinder.pro (photography) https://hardware.watch https://hardware.watch (tech reviews and news, pc enthusiasts, etc) https://gearhead.town https://gearhead.town (cars) https://netheads.online https://netheads.online (voip)
- kmlx 3y ago
  why do these sites all look like reddit?
  - rglullis 3y ago
    Because they are all different deployments of Lemmy [0]? [0] https://join-lemmy.org https://join-lemmy.org
  - gitgud 3y ago
    They’re mirroring reddit content
    - kmlx 3y ago
      ah, it makes sense now. thank you!
Y_Y 3y ago
Isn't it expensive to register so many domains? I guess you could host them all as subdomains of alien.top or something. Anyway you're doing a great service, I still see people manually "mirroring" stuff to Lemmy from Reddit. It's nice to have an extra filter, but this automating some of that makes much more sense to me.
- rglullis 3y ago
  The idea is to have these instances completely separate from alien.top. alien.top is the flagship instance from this fediverser project, but these content instances are related to my actual connunick business. Regarding domain price: aside from the 3-letter ones, the domains have been all reasonably cheap and they are an investment anyway. I have a vested interest in making the fediverse grow. [0] https://communick.com https://communick.com
pbronez 3y ago
Love this! What mechanisms are you considering for selecting the communities to mirror per instance? M
- rglullis 3y ago
  Right now, I'm just going by feeling. There are some cases where it's not clear cut (e.g, should /r/mechanicalKeyboards go to style.land or hardware.watch?) but in most cases the mapping can be done by finding the "largest" subreddit in a topic and then checking their own list of related subs.

mdaniel 3y ago

clickable version (sport news fan groups discussion etc) https://soccer.forum https://soccer.forum https://nba.space https://nba.space https://nfl.community https://nfl.community https://matchpoint.zone https://matchpoint.zone --- (pop-culture movies TV shows games) https://metacritics.zone https://metacritics.zone https://roll20.top https://roll20.top --- https://blockchained.world https://blockchained.world (web3) https://selfhosted.forum https://selfhosted.forum (devops, homelab) https://style.land https://style.land (brands, fashion, consumer items) https://hi-fi.community https://hi-fi.community (audio) https://viewfinder.pro https://viewfinder.pro (photography) https://hardware.watch https://hardware.watch (tech reviews and news, pc enthusiasts, etc) https://gearhead.town https://gearhead.town (cars) https://netheads.online https://netheads.online (voip)

kmlx 3y ago
why do these sites all look like reddit?
- rglullis 3y ago
  Because they are all different deployments of Lemmy [0]? [0] https://join-lemmy.org https://join-lemmy.org
- gitgud 3y ago
  They’re mirroring reddit content
  - kmlx 3y ago
    ah, it makes sense now. thank you!

Y_Y 3y ago

Isn't it expensive to register so many domains? I guess you could host them all as subdomains of alien.top or something. Anyway you're doing a great service, I still see people manually "mirroring" stuff to Lemmy from Reddit. It's nice to have an extra filter, but this automating some of that makes much more sense to me.

rglullis 3y ago
The idea is to have these instances completely separate from alien.top. alien.top is the flagship instance from this fediverser project, but these content instances are related to my actual connunick business. Regarding domain price: aside from the 3-letter ones, the domains have been all reasonably cheap and they are an investment anyway. I have a vested interest in making the fediverse grow. [0] https://communick.com https://communick.com

pbronez 3y ago

Love this! What mechanisms are you considering for selecting the communities to mirror per instance? M

rglullis 3y ago
Right now, I'm just going by feeling. There are some cases where it's not clear cut (e.g, should /r/mechanicalKeyboards go to style.land or hardware.watch?) but in most cases the mapping can be done by finding the "largest" subreddit in a topic and then checking their own list of related subs.