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Reddit implemented a limit on old.reddit - 100 requests per 10 minutes (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just quit Reddit a few days ago and haven't looked back. I remember when there was no viable alternative to Reddit, with all other platforms being very sparely populated, but a lot has changed since I recently got into Lemmy as there are actually people here!

After switching to Lemmy I've noticed I've been feeling a lot happier. Maybe that's just because of how social media companies design their service to be as addicting as possible, and they do so by making you feel angry. Everything here feels much calmer and more peaceful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Welcome !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks! 😀

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it goes deeper than that, and that Reddit has only expanded the hidden moderation so that comments from certain users are seen over those of other users well beyond karma calculations, and that a significant part of the effort to do so is to promote the message they want or are paid for to promote. It's not a wanton sellout, but with certain topics and in certain subreddits, it's quite evident that they want to push and promote meme stock, crypto, and neozionist messaging, which look at that, has a close correlation to the interests of its CEO. This has pushed out comments and posts that promote it over sane discussions, which tends to erode into emotionally divisive drivel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That's a great point! After October 7 and Israel's genocide, I was surprised how little attention r/Palestine got compared to r/Ukraine after Russia's invasion. If you look at the top posts of all time on r/Palestine, the top post only has 10k upvotes and was before October 7, while the top post on r/Ukraine has nearly 200k upvotes and it was right after Russia invaded. It feels like r/Palestine is being silently censored, or I guess you could say being partially shadow-banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont understand why third party apps don’t work with reddit. If the official app can work fine, surely an app that mimics the official one with the API requests should work, no?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Some tried. Reddit told them to pay a ridiculous amount.

That said, you can still use the old apps through revanced. I haven't had a rate limit yet, but I also might not make that many requests, as I don't use it that much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you can develop a system that can defeat oauth security you can do way more than falsify Reddit API traffic. You could steal all kinds of information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You don't need to authenticate yourself to access most of reddit's content. It is quite plausible to attempt to collect their content by anonymizing and disguising the collecting sessions good enough. The only thing it really does is make it harder to detect instances of reddit's hidden moderation, which may be the goal here if their intent is shape and promote discussions towards certain outcomes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Another appreciation post from me. The less I use Reddit and YouTube the better my life is. I really don’t see a drawback here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

also known as 10 requests per minute, idk why 10 minutes is the used standard here, i guess because it sounds less shit. But this is one request every 6 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, there is a technical difference between a limit of 10 requests/minute and 100 request/10 minutes. The average is the same, but the later allows for 100 requests in a minute followed by 9 minutes of nothing, whereas the former does not and 1 request/6 seconds is even worse

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

fair enough i guess, still averages out the same though so i'm not sure why that would matter all that much, unless this means you can only load like one page every 10 minutes or something lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

like for xitter they're so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they're blocking also many users

To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Oh good, I wasn’t going crazy the last few months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They already fucked the layout of it up a while back so it is functionally the same as new reddit anyway.

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