I just use Lemmy now but that's pretty neat.

Reddit ruined it. Reddit just isn't reddit without RIF. I don't even wanna see what's going on there anymore. From what I've heard it's going downhill anyways.

Not really into reading Reddit anymore but I just wanted to comment that I found the assumption that people would know what a portmanteau is but at the same time not understanding that the name is made out of libre + reddit funny.

Have a nice evening!

I have an honest question for all the commenters saying "I'd rather not use reddit": where do you get niche information from other than reddit?

I don't want to give reddit traffic, but I find myself constantly looking for information that would necessarily only be available on a platform like reddit. Examples:

• Product info and reviews
• Niche troubleshooting for odd hobbies (fermentation, video games, diy)
• Travel advice from locals/regulars (do I need wetsuit to swim here? Where are restaurants that won't harass my partner and I for being queer?)
• Advice, when the "official" recommendations on SEO websites were clearly written for a litigation-happy American society (some healthcare, some law, etc.)

I consider myself pretty information-access savvy but a lot of these things require a "crowdsource" aspect that blogs and other websites can't provide.

What do y'all do?

Libredirect redirects all your links to libre sources, not only Reddit but also youtube, twitter, tik tok, etc

https://libredirect.github.io/

Nah. Thanks for trying to help, but personally, I don’t want to have anything to do with Reddit. I won’t even follow Reddit links on Google.

The only way I interacted with Reddit was Apollo. And that’s gone. So Reddit is dead is dead to me.

Libreddit is great !

There is also Teddit that you can easily selfhost too and import your followed subs to. Example using docker

version: "3.8"

services:

  teddit:
    container_name: teddit
    image: teddit/teddit:latest
    environment:
# uncomment if behind reverse proxy
    #  - DOMAIN=yourdomain.tld
    #  - USE_HELMET=true
    #  - USE_HELMET_HSTS=true
    #  - TRUST_PROXY=true
      - REDIS_HOST=teddit-redis
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    networks:
      - teddit_net
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget" ,"--no-verbose", "--tries=1", "--spider", "http://localhost:8080/about"]
      interval: 1m
      timeout: 3s
    depends_on:
      - teddit-redis
#    volumes:
#      - /srv/path/Teddit/config.js:/teddit/config.js        #for your subreddits

  teddit-redis:
    container_name: teddit-redis
    image: redis:6.2.5-alpine
    command: redis-server
    environment:
      - REDIS_REPLICATION_MODE=master
    networks:
      - teddit_net

networks:
  teddit_net:

Some public instances :

teddit.ggc-project.de

teddit.zaggy.nl

teddit.tinfoil-hat.net

teddit.domain.glass

I appreciate the concept, but I don't even want to give Reddit page views anymore.

I've moved on from various platforms before, but I've never done so feeling so thoroughly pissed off at the platform itself. (I never had a Twitter account, or that would likely be neighbors with Reddit in this category)

How does it do this without the API?

I respect the project a great deal, but I just don’t see myself putting any effort into making Reddit accessible for myself.

Even if there were zero reasons to avoid Reddit on principle, Lemmy is just a better “product” for what I want out of it.

If I’m googling something at work and need to view a page there, fine. I’ll just use a cached page or visit directly with ad blocking as if it were any other webpage. That might benefit the company in some small way, but that doesn’t make it worth prepping my devices to better make use of Reddit.

Not being able to login to libreddit is a feature to me, since ideally people would not be contributing to helping add value to the ecosystem of reddit with comments for people to respond to.

Seen so many excuse like oh the subreddit I am on is niche so it doesn't matter. But, it's those niche ones that actually add the most value and have people come back, since the popular ones have been the easiest to replace. And it's the niche ones that show up in search results the most in my experience due to the obscurity compared to popular subs that have many different sites having the same resources.

I’ve exclusively used a selfhosted instance of libreddit for a while now and always loved it. I haven’t used it very much since all the API drama. I am now wondering how long libreddit will last.

I'm trying to boot reddit for good, but wonder, how does this work without the reddit API? Is it a web scraper? I think it is still possible to do that, but dk for how long.

Libreddit is great, been using it way before the Reddit drama (libreddit.caldeirag.xyz), there is also Teddit which is similar, they both support the cookie subscription thing.

I'd rather just not use reddit, thanks.

Hear me out.

You could also just NOT use reddit.

The most you use reddit, the more spez wins

when i click either of those github links it just reloads this page. when i went to libredd.it (is that even right? there's no link here) it threw an error. my internet is fine.

They have their bots upvoting here now? Lol whatever.