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Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by imglorp »

rovr138 wrote: post #45
bentcorner wrote: post #29

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From a very brief skim it doesn't appear to scrape: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/branch/main/routes/ho... But I'm not really a web dev so I might be misreading things. Also: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/400

You can (currently?) add .json to any url on reddit and it'll provide a json object. - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987... - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987... - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987...

That's another feature that that seems on its way out, like locking up the api..

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by rovr138 »

imglorp wrote: post #51
rovr138 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can (currently?) add .json to any url on reddit and it'll provide a json object. - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987... - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987... - https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/src/commit/b0ce6c52a66987...

That's another feature that that seems on its way out, like locking up the api..

Do you mean that they've said it or just makes sense?

Curious if they've said anything about it.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by dexterdog »

mikae1 wrote: post #42
ajdude wrote: post #10

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I really like libreddit. It was very easy for me to set up and host my own instance behind a VPN. I registered a very simple .com domain of repeating letters so I can quickly just double-tap the word "reddit" on my phone's address bar and replace the word "reddit" with my libreddit's domain name and tap "go". No more trying to type "old" over "www" or fight the "you must use the app"

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ for nitter, teddit and invidious.

The problem with redirectors is that it first has to go to the site you want to avoid and then it gets redirected. I always wanted something that would re-write pages as they are displayed and I couldn't find anything so I wrote my own greasemonkey script that gives me all of my searxng/teddit/piped/rimgo/wikiless/quetre/libremdb/proxitok/neuters/scribe/.

It also removes most utm trackers and referral codes from urls and pulls tracking urls that put the actual url in the querystring and replaces them and will pre-redirect on most common url shorteners so when you hover on a link you are more likely to see where it's actually going.

I've thought about packaging it up for more general use, but it's one of those things on the todo list.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by vcanales »

xur17 wrote: post #46
girfan wrote: post #44

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Right now it seems legal to scrape Reddit. But given their trajectory of making the API fairly expensive to use, do you think it's likely that they would also limit/prohibit scraping (assuming apps like Apollo start scraping as an alternative)?

My understanding is that scraping of public websites is generally legal, isn't it?

Legal, but probably against ToS

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Semaphor »

akiselev wrote: post #21
ajdude wrote: post #10

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I really like libreddit. It was very easy for me to set up and host my own instance behind a VPN. I registered a very simple .com domain of repeating letters so I can quickly just double-tap the word "reddit" on my phone's address bar and replace the word "reddit" with my libreddit's domain name and tap "go". No more trying to type "old" over "www" or fight the "you must use the app"

Anyone who uses Kagi can add a rule to automatically redirect to their teddit instance or old.reddit [1]. There are also plenty of extensions for almost every browser that redirects reddit, which are easy to fork and update for a custom instance. I added a custom !r bang that uses kagi to search reddit via a lens with that redirect. Works great [1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html

For users interested in this:

Go to https://kagi.com/settings?p=redirects

Add these rules:

    ^https://reddit.com|https://old.reddit.com  
    ^https://www.reddit.com|https://old.reddit.com
Theoretically you should be able to turn it into one rule, but this worked for me, so I stopped ;)

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Semaphor »

seabass-labrax wrote: post #6

On my personal Teddit instance, pages load approximately eight times faster than on reddit.com! There are also some nice UX features, such as being able to see the entire nested threads (like here on Hacker News) without expanding them individually.

> eight times faster than on reddit.com!

vs new or vs old? New is dog-slow IME, old is faster.

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