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4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Privacy: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
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Good idea for easing the Reddit to Lemmy migration.
From 2 comments
Nice work! I think this is a much more elegant solution
superb_dev on HNIsn'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…
Y_Y on HN
Objections
OAuth requests broad Reddit permissions, including private messages and posting.
From 3 comments
Yep, the amount of access being requested seems excessive: ``` Access posts and comments through my account. Access the list of subreddits I moderate, contribute to, and…
nacs on HN> Access my inbox and send private messages to other users. Yeah that's a quick no from me.
remram on HNI see https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser/issues/9 but I would be much more likely to use it if the oauth2 dance didn't ask for aggressive perms versus a "ask for all the…
mdaniel on HN
Lemmy lacks good desktop and mobile apps for adoption.
From 1 comment
The main thing Lemmy is missing for adoption is a good desktop and/or mobile app. Since instances can defederate with each other it's often not possible to follow all your…
ajvs on HN
Lemmy.world defederated from alien.top, limiting recommendations.
From 1 comment
That's because I'm still building the reddit-to-lemmy mapping, and for some cases in creating the lemmy communities themselves. There is also the fact that the largest Lemmy…
rglullis on HN
Requests
Request narrower OAuth scopes or ask for permissions on demand.
From 2 comments
The issue you are referring to is on the reddit -> lemmy side, but I see what you mean. I think I could make a separate application with less permissions and then just this one…
rglullis on HNI would not claim to be a oauth2 expert, but to the best of my knowledge the scopes that one declares during the app registration on the reddit side are the upper bound of what…
mdaniel on HN
Support two-way communication between Lemmy and Reddit.
From 1 comment
Two-way communication has been requested by some people and is the next item on my to-do list [0] [0]: https://github.com/orgs/mushroomlabs/projects/1
rglullis on HN
Questions
Why access_type=offline and scope=submit are requested.
From 1 comment
For my curiosity, why "access_type=offline" as well as "scope=submit" for connecting accounts? I got the impression from your description that it just allowed "claiming" the…
mdaniel on HN
Whether Reddit could sue over scraping.
From 1 comment
Are you not concerned about being sued by reddit?
SheinhardtWigCo on HN
Alternatives named
sub.rehab
From 1 comment
I wonder if you could team up with https://sub.rehab/ and evolve it.
Daegalus on HN
redditmigration.com
From 1 comment
Wow, I remember seeing this site during the first reddit protests but I completely forgot about it. I was using redditmigration.com for my initial pass, but it seems that a lot…
rglullis on HN
RSS feeds
From 1 comment
if following is all you care about, then you can just use the RSS feeds.
rglullis on HN