It’s a bummer too - I think my weekly screen time report had me using Apollo on average like 6 hours a day, I was very active in a couple small and fun communities, and the places with news relevant to me were all subbed and easily surfaced. Losing my primary tool was all it took to take me from a pretty engaged and active user to someone who stops by because a search result took me there.
The idea is that Lemmy instance admins can use this service alongside their Lemmy server to provide two things:
- "Login with Reddit", to make it easier for people to create an account on the Lemmy server. - A reddit-to-lemmy community map.
The idea is that when someone logs with Reddit OAuth, we can get their list of subreddits, and then auto-subscribe the user to the corresponding Lemmy communities, solving the onboarding issue and the content discovery in one go.
There is also a website, https://fediverser.network, where I'm crowdsourcing the data to make the mapping between subreddits to lemmy communities.
There are some subreddits I’d like to browse still but I definitely won’t be joining back into that dumpster fire.
I’ve been using Lemmy but it’s honestly aggravating to use in many ways.