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Libreddit is going down as well.

The silver lining here is that both of them are wholeheartedly recommending lemmy as the alternative, so it should provide an extra push to those on the fence about migrating

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[โ€“] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fuck, why is this the first time Iโ€™m hearing about these!?

Were they on par or better than old.reddit?

[โ€“] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

It depended on how you used reddit. They were extremely fast, had no ads, trackers or javascript so were extremely privacy friendly. But they were read only so you couldn't engage with the reddit content through them.

[โ€“] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It was lurker's paradise (me included) before actually changing to Infinity and making an account. Sad to see a nice project go dark because of reddit greediness.

[โ€“] Snurby@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

https://libredirect.github.io/ Here you can discover other alternative privacy friendly front-end to greedy corp mega-websites.

[โ€“] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was using one of the various publicly-hosted teddit sites (like https://teddit.privacytools.io/, which is currently rate-limited). It is pretty easy to import your Reddit subscriptions into one of these instances and have it show just your normal subscription content. You can't comment, but it was nice for lurking while Lemmy content was still coming up to speed.

I was able to easily launch a Teddit instance on my Linux server yesterday for my own usage using the Docker instructions on this site. It's not rate limited because I'm the only person using it.

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

I just saved that example into a file called "teddit.yml", and made the changes that they mention for non production usage:

Change ports: - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080" to ports: - "8080:8080" Remove DOMAIN=teddit.net, USE_HELMET=true, USE_HELMET_HSTS=true, TRUST_PROXY=true

Then I just ran this command and I can use it on my home network.

sudo docker-compose -f ~/docker/compose/teddit.yml up -d

I just access it with a browser at http://192.168.1.6:8080

For getting your Reddit subscriptions loaded into it, there is a trick to get a text list of your list of Reddit subscriptions, which you then just paste into a .json file and import into any teddit instance from the webpage. See the bottom of this post.

The .json file just contains this, with your list of subscriptions in a comma-separated string with double quotes: {"subbed_subreddits":["AskReddit","LifeProTips","Music"],"theme":"dark","flairs":"true","nsfw_enabled":"true","highlight_controversial":"true","post_media_max_height":"medium","collapse_child_comments":"false","show_upvoted_percentage":"true","show_upvotes":"true","videos_muted":"true","domain_twitter":"","domain_youtube":"","domain_instagram":"undefined","domain_quora":"","domain_imgur":"","prefer_frontpage":"true","show_large_gallery_images":"false","default_comment_sort":"best"}

----------- Downloading your Reddit subscriptions as a text string ---------

1.) Visit this site in a desktop browser while logged into your account: https://www.reddit.com/subreddits

2.) Paste this into the address bar, but don't press enter yet.

javascript:$('body').replaceWith(''+$('.subscription-box').find('li').find('a.title').map((_, d) => $(d).text()).get().join("\",\"")+'');javascript.void()

{I'm not sure if the formatting of that command always displays properly on Lemmy or your app. The part in the join() section is: doublequote backslash doublequote comma backslash doublequote doublequote}

3.) You might have to manually type the "javascript" text at the beginning of that command in the address bar because I found that Windows or the browser ignores that part when you paste.

4.) Press enter, and you should get a text list of your subscriptions displayed in your browser that you can copy and paste into any text document, like the above-mentioned.json file. Just manually add a leading and trailing double quote to make it work with that teddit.json format.

[โ€“] Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Great comment, thank you

[โ€“] ImTiagoSousa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It was great. Unfortunately I only found out about it around 1 month prior to the API news, so I didn't have much time to use it.

[โ€“] rockhandle@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The instance of searx that i use automatically redirected all reddit links to libreddit. It was very fast and distraction free

[โ€“] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to share what instance you're using? Mine has no such option (PaulGO).

[โ€“] rockhandle@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

search.whateveritworks.org

[โ€“] UdeRecife@lemmy.sdfeu.org 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thanks a ton. Much better than the instance I was using. ๐Ÿคฉ

[โ€“] zxo@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Libreddit a ton, so sad to see it go. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.

That being said, I really have been enjoying Lemmy lately, I hope it catches on a little more.

[โ€“] Vupperware@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just wish the feedโ€™s algorithm was a bit better.

My front page is constantly inundated with memes. I love memes, but Iโ€™m here for conversation!

I know I could just block/unsub from these communities, but Iโ€™d much rather have a healthy ratio between memes, news, and discussions.

[โ€“] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could unsubscribe from those meme communities and then use "all" view whenever you're in the mood for some memes, and your "subscribed" view won't be drown with memes.

Given how active those meme communities right now, chance that the "all" view in your instance are being dominated by memes anyway, so it's not like you'll have to subscribe to see them.

[โ€“] amabad@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be great to be able to create groups for communities, so you could always switch between them.

[โ€“] zxo@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I'm hoping that someone could figure that out soon. I would myself, but I'm pretty bad at coding.

[โ€“] NightOwl@lemmy.one 35 points 1 year ago

That shout out to lemmy by teddit and libreddit was really nice.

[โ€“] Wolfram@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn... for a while Libreddit was almost exclusively how I browsed Reddit. This sucks.

[โ€“] zxo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I'm really quite impacted by this because I used Libreddit a LOT. Corporate greed ruins everything.

[โ€“] subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely, libreddit is how i got around internet filters to browse reddit.

[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully they're recommending/pointing people away from the huge Lemmy instances.

[โ€“] mindlessknowledge@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As were seeing with Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml getting ddos attacked, having the biggest most active communities centralized on such large instances hurts everyone whose federated with them

[โ€“] NightOwl@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Also, lemmy.world admin hasn't taken the strongest stance against Meta federation. So depending on their decision in the future another migration of communities might be called for. It's a good reason to spread out so leaving an instance doesn't mean losing a bulk of your communities like with reddit.

[โ€“] xpectance@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Been using teddit for like a month and absolutely loved it, too bad it's shutting down. Any chance to make old.reddit look more like teddit? (better spacing, more minimalistic look)?

[โ€“] nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Libreddit "going down" is a bit wrong since there's still people working on it, but RIP. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.

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