Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead : reddit

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It appears API rate limiting has effectively killed these alternatives. You essentially get nothing but “Too many requests” 429 errors.

Lemmy sadly does not have the active niche news and discussions I want. But now nothing can be read without going to Reddit. I hate Spez

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

RSS feeds started throwing 429 errors today, like I predicted. They were never going to leave this loophole open.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which reader are you using?
I'm selfhosting FreshRSS and it keeps working

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not using one.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, what?
Then how do you know it's started to throw errors if you're not reading rss?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Multiple people have reported 429 errors.

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