First off, thank you for your work on this!
So I'm trying this out in WSL2 and I managed to get the script to run... but I have TOTP enabled on my reddit account. Any chance this could support MFA? I'm using the correct username and password I get "Incorrect username or password" so I'm sure it's the TOTP requirement not being met.
Thank you again for going to the trouble of making this workaround.
I went with Option 1 and I got an error "Error joining Lemmy communities." So I ran the script with the DEBUG option and I saw that after a few (can't remember how many) searches the site started responding with a rate limit error for the rest of the searches.