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Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead (lemmy.world)
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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] 1 points 1 year ago

There were some discussions among the teddit hosts about attempting to use scraping instead, but it's not easy and requires a lot of changes to the code. Not to mention it's going to quickly become a cat and mouse game if reddit makes changes to their site. It's just not worth it at this point. Reddit doesn't want us.