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
I just started using rss for the communities I still want to know about.
You only need to add the reddit name of the community and.rssat the end in your reader.
For examplehttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/hot.rssRSS feeds started throwing 429 errors today, like I predicted. They were never going to leave this loophole open.
Which reader are you using?
I’m selfhosting FreshRSS and it keeps workingI’m not using one.
Wait, what?
Then how do you know it’s started to throw errors if you’re not reading rss?Multiple people have reported 429 errors.
Then come post the interesting ones here!
Is there any way to get sorting? Biggest problem seems to be that RSS is chronological only. Also, it doesn’t seem to provide any of the comments.
Not the most privacy-friendly option, but I use RSS in Inoreader.
Be the change you want to see.
Talking to myself about niche topics like bourbon, civil engineering, my local city and state, and what not is boring. There just isn’t the user base here to have active discussions on such narrow topics.
So you expect others to create these spaces an will only join them when they have enough users? Hen? egg?
I know where you’re coming from. Give it some time. This whole thing sucks, but it’ll get sorted out eventually.
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I made this Firefox extension to always open reddit links in the wayback machine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/reddit-to-wayback-machine/There was the Pushshift project, which archived all of Reddit’s posts and comments in text (JSON) form. You can download the data here: posts, comments.
If you’re on Linux, once you have downloaded and extracted the respective file, you could run something like
grep -m 1 '"id":"11eoagd"' RS_2023-03 | jq, where11eoagdis the post ID. It’s not pretty, but it works.
There’s that one Lemmy instance that has a bot that posts content scrapped from Reddit, I forgot the name though.
I know some people don’t like these bots, but I’m keen on the cross posting. Bringing the idea to this platform and then people can discuss it. It’s mostly the discussions that have the best value anyway 🦙
I think the idea of having crossposted content is ok since you can opt in or out of seeing it, just looked through the instance though and it seems like nobody is interacting with the content at all. For me, my favorite part of the posts on Reddit was reading through the conversations in the comments. Imo, if nobody is interacting with the content that is being crossposted we shouldn’t bother with continuing to copy it over
It seems to mostly cover the big subs.
Just request the ones you want here and it will start syncing them. Make sure you subscribe after the communities are made (takes a few minutes) or the dev will disable the bot on those communities. The more people who subscribe, the more often it checks for updates. https://lemmit.online/c/requests
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !requests@lemmit.online
Good bot
Does it copy comments?
No
Did you request him to a add the ones you want?
But now nothing can be read without going to Reddit
I’m here right now! Reading to my hearts content
How come Focus for Reddit is still working? Even NSFW is unblocked there
The app is still using the dev API token, the dev didn’t revoke the token and created a new one for the API changes.
If it’s abandoned the app will continue to work.Who gets the bill?
The developer
Creating a new sub so I’m a moderator brought Boost back to life. Maybe that will help here?
Well, Reddit is practically dead, too. Just give it another six months or so of bad decision making, and whenever that IPO is going to drop.
Libreddit does work, but not all instances of it do.
A few I’ve found. But your subscriptions don’t carry between instances, and it’s hard try and cycle through them on mobile. And even then after a few minutes they start failing.
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.
if you really want reddit use old reddit or still working libreddit instances
I was trying to avoid giving reddit traffic.
welp guess that means you don’t want to use Reddit
Go to the settings, ping the instances, and add a handful with good ping.
I cycle through 3-4 instances using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Alt + L is the default but you can change it via your brower’s extension settings) and usually find one that’s up and running.
See I thought that Beehaw.org was the Lemmy instance for news, as it’s supposed to be a well moderated instance, am I incorrect in that assumption?
Also it would be nice if Beehaw’s mods approved my account so that I could use that instance for those purposes. I’ve been trying to get an account created with them for almost a month now.
I’m like you OP, my main focus on Reddit was staying up-to-date on the most current events and technology/science based posts, the sort I generally used on Reddit was “Top this Hour” because that seemed to be the most reliable and up-to-date hourly news as the news rolled in.
Another thing that helped greatly was Reddit is Fun’s content filtering capabilities. Because who tf wants to read some bullshit from Fox News or other severely corrupted and biased news sources? The third party app for Lemmy that let’s me eliminate garbage sources from my feed is the one that wins me as a user, and I used RiF for as long as it’s been around, so they would be winning a loyal user.
Beehaw isn’t great to be a source for news since they defederated two of the largest (from what I can tell) instances.
Create an account at lemm.ee. Great instance and federated with beehaw, so you can enjoy the content if you wish.
See I thought that Beehaw.org was the Lemmy instance for news, as it’s supposed to be a well moderated instance, am I incorrect in that assumption?
I just started a US and World news community on my instance (had federation issues with Beehaw and a lot of stuff randomly didn’t come through in either direction, especially comments/replies). I contributed to the moderation policies they use for their news sub, and the community I put together has even tougher standards than that.
If you’re interested, here’s a post I put together with the standards for posts and the moderation policies we use: https://dubvee.org/post/58845
Community link: /c/news@dubvee.org
I feel guilty plugging my own community, but if Beehaw isn’t an option (they really are well modded), then I hope for this to be the next best thing. I’ve found the other existing news communities to be somewhat lacking in proper moderation and source vetting.
Just wait, the devs will find a way.
difficult till almost impossible. i recently started coding my own client for reddit (i wanted a way to still get nsfw content when thirdparty clients go dead), and reddit is fucking annoying as hell. everything you do… they smash issues towards you. every time shitty 429 errors (rate limiting) even if you are logged in. just using a useragent of a normal browser gets you ratelimited. so spoofing a normal browser don’t works. sending a bit too much requests (like the Stealth app who is basically a parser for reddits website) gets your device ip banned. if you then open reddit in browser, they smash a error in your face that basically says “fuck you, we think you are a bot. gtfo.”.
bypassing this rate limiting is almost impossible even if you try to spoof a browser. i tried the last few days and just gave up because its too annoying and buggy. the whole system of reddit is so annoying as a developer to work with.
it annoyed me so much, that i now think about making the app not for reddit but for lemmy. because reddit sucks. hard. fuck them.
I was trying to be positive,but after reading their announcement on github not so much anymore. Thank you for explaining in deep way is not possible to find a workaround.
the biggest issue is that they detect thirdparty clients coded as a website parser on their server and just block you. and bypassing this isn’t really working well because of the rate limiting.
example: i just did send 3 requests where i first logged in, then asked for the recent posts of a sub… and already after this 2 requests i got rate limited by error 429 and couldn’t send any requests anymore.
so even just requesting the recent posts in a sub is an issue (with spoofed browser useragent). if you use a “legit” useragent it works better, but reddit exactly knows you’re using a thirdparty client and can block or ban you whenever they feel like. so it’s not really a good solution because every minute reddit could hit the killswitch. just not worth the time to develope a app if it gets killed off then anyway.
So no hope, I get it.
based on the knowledge, i would say nah. but maybe there is somewhere on the internet a genius who can somehow gets it to work stable enough… who knows.
i just checked the announcement of libreddit and it seems they used the same json endpoints i did for my project, so they probably encountered the same issues i did. and if they didn’t found a good solution yet (even after working way more with the API and endpoints than me)… dunno.
Im not sure I agree here, I host my own libreddit instance and I have no issues with rate limits. I would highly recommend going your own instance if you can
I have checked multiple instances, and everyone has the same trouble. And I have no idea how to host my own instance.
It’s probably an issue with the instances having too many users instead of libreddit being broken. It might be worth trying to find a smaller instance or trying to host your own. Hosting libreddit was my first step into hosting services using docker and it was surprisingly easy
Nope, it’s the API changes: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/840
