It appears API rate limiting has effectively killed these alternatives. You essentially get nothing but “Too many requests” 429 errors.

Lemmy sadly does not have the active niche news and discussions I want. But now nothing can be read without going to Reddit. I hate Spez

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    Beehaw isn’t great to be a source for news since they defederated two of the largest (from what I can tell) instances.