Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead
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
# Request a subreddit Make requests for new subreddits/communities here, using the name of the subreddit as the title, or with a link to the subreddit as the url. For anything else, go to [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [/c/[email protected]]. ## Requests for NSFW subs should be marked as such. They often have nsfw thumbnails, and will show up unblurred on other servers. ## Warning: Use common sense when requesting. Comments are not copied over. So requests for explainLikeImFive or askMidgets are useless, since you’ll never get the answers here. Also keep in mind that each sub you request here takes resources to process forevermore. So, you know, show some restraint.
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.
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.
See I thought that Beehaw.org was theLemmy 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’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?
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). 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: dubvee.org/post/58845
Community link: /c/[email protected]
### About This is a curated news community with high standards for submissions. Mis- and disinformation are rampant on the internet, and the rules established for this community are an attempt to curtail that and provide a reliable and objective source of world events. News posted here should not be sensationalized in order to be entertaining; it should be factual and accurate and written with the sole intention of informing the reader to the situation. #### How are News Sources Confirmed to be Unbiased and/or Reputable? When in doubt, I will run a news source through Media Bias Fact Check [https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/exclusive-source-bias-ratings-search/] in order to determine its bias and credibility. While this isn’t perfect, it’s a very good and highly rated tool ran by a non-profit organization. If a source’s bias is determined to be far-left or far-right, the post will be removed and you’ll be asked to resubmit the story from a more neutral and/or credible source. ### Community Rules Explained #### Rule #1: Reputable Sources With Low Bias All posts must be from a reputable news source that is known to report factually, in good faith, and without significant bias. I’m not naive, and I would consider very few news sources to be completely unbiased (AP and Reuters are the closest that come to mind). That said, most reputable sources of news will report the facts in good faith and leave the rest up to the reader to decide for themselves. Reputable sources do not speculate on every topic nor “just ask questions” to the reader. Reputable sources do not tell you how you should feel about a topic or tell you what you should think about it; they merely provide you the facts of the situation, informing you to make your own opinion. The good faith part is key here. There are lot of news sources that are technically “news” but are known to operate in bad faith and/or with a highly partisan angle. I will not list any specifically, but they are out there, and they are rampant. Additionally, do not link to tabloids, blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or other social media. Those are not news sources. They are rarely, if ever, confirmed or fact checked, have no journalistic standards, and are usually rife with opinion. #### Rule #2: Do Not Editorialize the Title The post title must match the headline. I don’t think this really requires further explanation. #### Rule #3: Original Source is Mandatory Posts must have the original article source as the post URL. Let’s face it. Many of us are busy and often don’t bother to read the entire article. We’ll just scroll through a news feed, look at the headlines, and add the tidbit of information in the headline to our collective knowledge. The danger with that is that those headlines may be from a non-reputable news source which is fully aware of that habit and seek to exploit it with sensationalized titles or misrepresented facts. In the feed, the source URL is directly adjacent to the headline/title, so having an indicator of the source, front and center, is an easy way to quickly discern the source of the information you’re absorbing and whether it should be trusted. If you use an archive or other paywall-bypassing link as the post URL, the source is obfuscated. That allows a tabloid or mis- / disinformation headline to carry the same weight as one from a reputable source. Similarly, do not include your own image even if the post image fails to load. The source URL will be that of the image and not the article which will prevent the source from being apparent. To include an archive link that sidesteps a paywall, include that in the top of the post body. #### Rule #4: Be Civil in the Comments Be civil in the comments. No hate speech, bigotry, racism or any dog-whistle versions of any of that. If you need me to elaborate on this any further than that, then you probably shouldn’t bother commenting at all. #### Rule #5: No Bot-Generated Summaries Do not include bot-generated summaries of the article. Let people read for themselves. Bot summaries are hit or miss and often leave out nuance, perspective, or other pertinent details that are important to the story. If someone prefers a bot to TL;DR things for them, then they’ll likely already have some plugin/process of their own to do that. Leave them to that process and allow the rest of us to read the articles as the authors intended. #### Rule #6: Do Not Editorialize the Post Similar to rule #2, do not editorialize in the post. Any opinions you have about the news story should be in the comments. ### Moderation Policy The rules in this community are strictly enforced. Infringing posts will be removed as soon as they are known. That said, I strongly believe in transparency, so here is the protocol for how posts are moderated: - If your post is found to be infringing on a rule, you will receive a reply from a mod/admin stating which rule was broken and in what way. - The infringing post will be locked for further comments and removed. As far as I know, you should still be able to see the post in your profile and still see the reply from the mod/admin in your notifications. If this turns out to not be the case, this procedure will be adjusted to compensate for that. - Depending on the nature of the rule violation, one of the following will happen after that: - You will be encouraged to resubmit after making the necessary corrections. (e.g. If you accidentally used an archive link for the source, you’ll be asked to resubmit with the original URL) - You will be specifically told not to resubmit the post (e.g. you’ve linked to a tabloid/non-reputable source) Repeat offenders will face a temporary or ultimately permanent ban. This isn’t baseball, and it’s not a three-strikes policy; it depends more on which rule was broken, how often, and in what way(s). That said, some rule violations are more egregious than others. Repeatedly submitting non-reputable news sources after receiving warnings will result in a ban. Being uncivil in the comments will also get you a ban. Continued violations after temporary bans are lifted will ultimately result in a permanent ban from the community. The other rules are important, but it’s easy to forget, so infractions to those will typically be dealt with more leniently. However, consistently (and/or flagrantly) violating them can end up with a ban from the community, especially if you are non-responsive when asked to bring them into compliance with the community rules.
Take a look at this post. Maybe the GitHub repo mentioned there can help.
See the bot in action here! ### My instance running Leddit [https://leddit.danmark.party/] Click here for a more detailed explanation about the bot’s purpose [https://feddit.nu/post/41589] This bot is intended to be self-hosted. Unfortunately, I can’t operate a public instance that takes subreddit requests because of how long syncing comments takes. For comparison, Lemmit takes 21 minutes to sync all of the subreddits on this instance using the old system, but Leddit takes the same amount of time to sync 3 subreddits with around 500k subscribers each once an hour. Smart syncing is planned, but it won’t decrease the amount of time taken to sync big and active subreddits. If you need help setting up an instance, feel free to ask questions in this thread or on the Leddit instance’s community [https://leddit.danmark.party/c/lounge].
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.
Is there an offline archive alternative? I don’t need up to date comments. Most the times that I am forced to use reddit it is for solutions to technical problems posted years ago.
Or is there an offline database for Reddit that you can download like with wikipedia? If you go by text only or could choose communities that probably wouldn’t be too much data.
I feel like this needs to be done soon if it doesn’t already exist because Reddit is probably going to copy Musk again.
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, where 11eoagd is the post ID. It’s not pretty, but it works.
But now nothing can be read without going to Reddit
I’m here right now! Reading to my hearts content
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