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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] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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 .rss at the end in your reader.
For example https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/hot.rss

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Then come post the interesting ones here!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not using one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Multiple people have reported 429 errors.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Not the most privacy-friendly option, but I use RSS in Inoreader.