Better to use recent events as an excuse to get off the site altogether.

It had been a crappy habit for a while, so I'm not going to go out of my way to get back into it after I was given the gift of disrupting it.

That has been my strategy as well.

My private instance still works great. It's pretty easy to run your own: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Is your private instance behind a login/VPN, or is it open to the public? If open, how long has it been running?

I'm considering running one "privately", but am worried about it being "discovered" and abused with unwanted traffic. And setting it behind a VPN seems like a hassle.

It's behind my firewall/VPN (not publicly accessible).

The official instructions use nginx as a reverse proxy. If you don't want to set up something like Wireguard, you can use HTTP basic authentication[0] to make it inaccessible/invisible without a username/password. (You definitely want to also set up certbot[1] for SSL if you go this route.)

[0]: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/c...

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/LetsEncrypt

Thanks for the reply :) logistically, do you have to connect to VPN when you find you want to browse reddit? This is the "hassle" piece I was referring to earlier. Or do you simply always leave your phone and laptop connected to VPN by default?

This is an ideal use case for something like TailScale! It’ll only redirect traffic that’s meant for your internal network, unless you set it as an exit node - then it asks as a regular VPN.

I route all of my traffic (especially laptop/mobile, where I'm sometimes connecting to sketchy networks) over a Wireguard VPN to a server I control.

Also comes in handy when traveling, for services like Netflix that geoblock you based on your IP address.

Noticed that too. Ever since i changed my bookmark to teddit, i'm getting the same error. noticed my time spent on reddit drastically decreased because i noticed everytime i get bored i'd go to the bookmark, but then i'd see the 429 error so i close the tab

Would it make sense to scrape reddit (links, not comments) to a dedicated Lemmy service? As a nice transitory thing when enough people haven't yet moved?

Too bad. What teddit needs is a way to use the user's ips to call reddit (and then they cache it every 5m), maybe a browser plugin or something.

I made a user script that alternates between teddit instances on error responses. It's quick and dirty, but does the job.

https://pastebin.com/zFJ5nb42

The Libredirect plugin also redirects to various instances you can select (although not automatically with error responses), both with Teddit/Libreddit and a bunch of other services like Nitter, Invidious, and Anonymous Overflow.

(It would actually be cool if this sort of error detecting was added to Libredirect so the user wouldn't have to keep clicking "switch instance" when it gets rate limited.)

Same with libreddit. It was fun while it lasted.

Teddit: alternative Reddit front-end site

I have needed to resort to using reddit to sell some homelab stuff lately and I was pleased to find that the revanced manager patcher has adblock patches for the official reddit app (as well as twitter, which is nice for the occasional visit), not to mention patches for various 3rd party apps that allow you to substitute api keys

Consider r/redditseppuku

Get off reddit