Libreddit (and sometimes teddit) are essential to me now to watch reddit content without getting into reddit. But I wonder if they will keep working, mostly since Stealth on android won’t keep working after.

  • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
    16·
    1 year ago

    It looks like the method they’ll be going with for legal reasons is to allow instance operators to use their own API keys. This might be a good solution if you self-host your own private instance (easy with docker on a home network, no domain name required) with low traffic, but the Reddit API change will probably kill the larger public instances with many users, as those will definitely have traffic over the API limits.

    • gentoouser@lemmy.ml
      8·
      1 year ago

      Right, I missed where the dev said:

      More importantly this code will unfortunately likely never be merged due to legal issues

      Public instances will easily hit the 100 requests per minute restriction on the free tier. Some apps like RedReader are exempt from the new restrictions, I wonder why they can’t use their API keys in the meantime but maybe it’s more complicated than that.

      • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
        2·
        1 year ago

        The dev apparently used the RedReader app to test a “spoofing” method of access for a proof of concept, but they don’t want to use that method either, because it would potentially cause problems for RedReader, which they didn’t want to do:

        If we do that, and cause a huge traffic boost under RedReader’s name, it might lose them their exempt status. I’d like to avoid that if I can - there’s no reason to paint a target on RedReader’s back unnecessarily (an independent, non-commercial app), especially since the equivalent can be done with the official app without the same risks.

        The real problem for Libreddit instance operators is going to be acquiring an API key. It doesn’t look like it’s an automated process like most other services - you have to fill out a form, which opens a ticket, and wait for someone from Reddit to get back to you.

        I run an instance, and I’m not sure I want to go to the trouble. But I’ll wait and see what happens.