Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working.
We all knew this was coming. Even so…
There are instances that still work for me.
LibReddit seems to be working still. At least my instance is.
Fuck those asshats that are in charge over there. They had a good thing and pissed all over it
Reddit front-ends access Reddit data in a way that is now bound by much stricter rate-limiting than ever before.
Popular instances may be usable for a short time until their limit is reached, then they will 429 like everyone else.
If you, personally, host a Reddit front-end instance, you are still affected, you are just less likely to reach the limit as quickly as public instances.
Here’s what the Libreddit project intends to do about it: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/836
If similar projects plan to continue, they will likely follow a similar approach.