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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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.
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.
I know where you’re coming from. Give it some time. This whole thing sucks, but it’ll get sorted out eventually.
So you expect others to create these spaces an will only join them when they have enough users? Hen? egg?
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.
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.
