Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead : reddit

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023

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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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[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not using one.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 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?

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Multiple people have reported 429 errors.