If you’re like me, you want to see how Reddit looks mid-protest but don’t want to give Reddit any direct web traffic or contributing to their ad revenue. That’s where Libreddit comes in, see github.
Libreddit is a privacy-respecting frontend for Reddit, so you don’t need to worry about supporting them.
A list of instances can be found here. If you don’t care about instances, just click here.
Happy protesting.
EDIT: User @Malin@omg.qa made a point about web traffic, I adjusted above to reflect more accurately. Reddit will still be gaining web traffic, however not directly. This also means a loss of advertising revenue for Reddit. If you are going to check Reddit regardless, this is the best way to do it as far as I know.
You are still giving them traffic, just not directly.
Traffic is not useful for them by itself, user metadata is, and this keeps at least some of it away from them.
Usually, yes, but I’m sure they’ll be tracking traffic more than usual during the protest to see actual impact, so any traffic is counterproductive to the protest.
Also, isn’t this using the API? Pretty sure these websites aren’t long for this world.
thanks for this, i edited the post. that slipped my mind entirely.
Similarly, if you are looking for different front-ends for other services:
https://farside.link/ has a large selection and I’ve seen librereads (https://librereads.vercel.app/) making the rounds today
Additionally, Libredirect also have a list of instances like farside.link, but with other types of services as well. I didnt do a thorough comparison yet. See https://github.com/libredirect/instances/blob/main/data.json. I think they also regularly update it.
I was just hoping to hear reports from other people about what was happening on Reddit.
We’re also getting some coverage in the mainstream news. It’s not always hitting the most salient points, but that’s the news for you!
There are more instances if you want to find an instance close to your location or even on TOR.
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md
Why not just use an ad blocker and a browser extension to randomize user agent?