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
There’s that one Lemmy instance that has a bot that posts content scrapped from Reddit, I forgot the name though.
Is there a reddit archive alternative? I don’t need up to date comments. Most the times that I am forced to use reddit it is for solutions to technical problems posted years ago. You could have one visit and get a snapshot 2 days after it was posted. Almost nobody adds comments after a day or two.
Or is there an offline database for Reddit that you can download like with wikipedia? If you go by text only or could choose communities that probably wouldn’t be too much data.
I feel like this needs to be done soon if it doesn’t already exist because Reddit is probably going to copy Musk again.
I made this Firefox extension to always open reddit links in the wayback machine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/reddit-to-wayback-machine/
Be the change you want to see.
Talking to myself about niche topics like bourbon, civil engineering, my local city and state, and what not is boring. There just isn’t the user base here to have active discussions on such narrow topics.
So you expect others to create these spaces an will only join them when they have enough users? Hen? egg?