Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

[twobitshifter]

I’ve used teddit but prefer libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

> It is a private front-end like Invidious but for Reddit.

- Fast: written in Rust for blazing-fast speeds and memory safety

- Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat

-Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media

-Secure: strong Content Security Policy prevents browser requests to Reddit

of course you cant post, comment, or upvote from it.

[wintermutestwin]

>Libreddit is themed around Reddit's redesign whereas Teddit appears to stick much closer to Reddit's old design. This may suit some users better as design is always subjective.

[ajdude]

I really like libreddit. It was very easy for me to set up and host my own instance behind a VPN. I registered a very simple .com domain of repeating letters so I can quickly just double-tap the word "reddit" on my phone's address bar and replace the word "reddit" with my libreddit's domain name and tap "go".

No more trying to type "old" over "www" or fight the "you must use the app"

[goplayoutside]

There's also troddit.com, which has logins.

https://github.com/burhan-syed/troddit

[dotty-]

It sucks that all this talk about scraping HTML will only push Reddit to deprecate Old Reddit even faster so users are forced to use a Javascript-heavy experience, complete with random HTML IDs. What then?

[stepupmakeup]

They've already gotten rid of the .compact frontend and actively removed workarounds/aliases that users discovered when it was first removed. Old reddit is definitely next up on the chopping block.

[midoridensha]

Maybe then, Reddit can go the way of Digg.

[deathlight]

Old Dot Reddit is already so deprecated I'm astounded anybody even knows about it anymore. So what the heck are you talking about? It's pretty much gone so what's your go-to now that it's been a pretty garbage site to browse for more than a year? If it’s just inertia then Jesus. And now it's in it's just automatically submitting people's comments I never clicked enter before it just sent that yikes what the heck man you're the handle on your damn Tech the f** is going on.

[ubermonkey]

Good luck. News is the API fees are going to destroy Apollo.

[seabass-labrax]

I believe Teddit uses scraping; I run a Teddit instance for myself and haven't needed to set up an API key.

[princevegeta89]

This is the first classic example that I've encountered where a company will uses its power and ownership to completely render smaller, independent products unsustainable

[grensley]

$12,000 per 50 million requests according to a post the dev made on Reddit, which he claims translates to $20 million a year.

[matheusmoreira]

HTML is a perfectly good API.

[willjp]

Good to know, good time to donate if I can. I love apollo

[scottydelta]

What a poor timing for something like this.

[samspenc]

Slightly off the main topic - but this is the first time I've seen codeberg.org (where Teddit is hosted). Looks like a serious competitor to GitHub, curious if anyone has worked with Codeberg and can list its pros and cons compared to GitHub / GitLab.

[tmtvl]

They have an FAQ: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/

One of the main pros seems to be that they're all-in on Free software.

[davisr]

For the Redirector browser plugin:

        {
            "description": "Reddit to Teddit",
            "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/u/rmhack",
            "exampleResult": "https://teddit.net/u/rmhack",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)reddit.com/(.*)",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "Convert all Reddit http(s) subdomains to teddit.net",
            "redirectUrl": "https://teddit.net/$3",
            "patternType": "R",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame"
            ]
        },

[matricaria]

There is also LibRedirect (https://libredirect.github.io/).

[mikae1]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ that is. I use the same add-on for nitter, teddit and invidious.

[seabass-labrax]

On my personal Teddit instance, pages load approximately eight times faster than on reddit.com! There are also some nice UX features, such as being able to see the entire nested threads (like here on Hacker News) without expanding them individually.

[ecliptik]

Did you do anything to speed up Teddit page loads? I self-host too and Teddit is a bit sluggish since it seems to load everything on the page before rendering[1].

I tried Libreddit as an alternative, which is much faster, but I prefer the look/feel of Teddit.

1. https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/248

[Semaphor]

> eight times faster than on reddit.com!

vs new or vs old? New is dog-slow IME, old is faster.

[reddtastic]

If you don’t mind that Reddit knows your IP, and if you want to explore the NSFW side of Reddit, try https://reddtastic.com

You can view multiple subreddits by joining their name with a plus sign, e.g. https://reddtastic.com/r/nsfw+gonewild

Edit: Yes, the home page is NSFW! You can also browse

- Reddit’s front page: https://reddtastic.com/r/

- r/popular: https://reddtastic.com/r/popular

- r/all: https://reddtastic.com/r/all

- Or any other subreddit like https://reddtastic.com/r/aww

[low_tech_love]

Whoa MAJOR NSFW warning here!! Don't click this if you're not alone. I know the commenter mentioned but it sounded like it was an optional thing. Nope!

[code_biologist]

While we're on the topic of privacy focused frontends, anyone have recommendations for similar YouTube frontends?

[keyboardJones]

The LibRedirect website has a great list of alternatives: https://libredirect.github.io/

[keyboardJones]

Piped is one option: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

[dredmorbius]

Piped and Invidious.

I prefer Invidious for vague reasons, though either it or the instance I use most often seems to fail about 25--50% of the time on videos, with more popular content (e.g., music) failing most often, so I'll fall back to Piped.

Otherwise I use mpv / ytdl, and in fact greatly prefer that approach.

For those prefering a standalone GUI, there's VLC.

[brucethemoose2]

invidious is the closest analogue, if its still alive.

[psnehanshu]

Post about Reddit API pricing and the Apollo app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083

[zeagle]

For those hosting their own Reddit/libreddit instance doesn't that reduce anonymity to Reddit by having only a single user? I have been using public ones to mix my traffic in with others.

[snwfog]

https://rdddeck.com is also a good reddit front-end. Its like Tweetdeck but for Reddit. Supports mobile as well.

[great_psy]

Does it do the scraping before you visit the subreddit ? Is there any local caching involved ?

Or are all the improvements from skipping the client side garbage calls?

[proxiful-wash]

what are the chances teddit is stealing our data?

[brucethemoose2]

If its anything like nitter, it doesn't use the public API and so is not as vulnerable to Reddit's changes.

[artificial]

If you’re on iOS Hyperweb has support for Teddit redirects, very convenient.

[unsupp0rted]

Hyperweb looks great!

Is there any way to have Google Flights redirect the URL to default my currency to my home region?

Google Flights always shows results in the local currency.

Even when I’m logged into Google Flights, even when it has a cookie from my previous search, even when I’m on a VPN for my home currency region, it still defaults search results to the currency of wherever I’m sitting.

Can Hyperweb override this?

[moneywoes]

Very slow but I think that’s a feature. Makes Reddit less addicting

[dexterdog]

It's plenty fast for me because I self host it and don't use a public proxy. You can self-host it in a docker container locally if you want. The real plus is that there is no way to comment or even vote which makes reddit less of a time waster.

[aSockPuppeteer]

I ended up deleting my Reddit accounts. Spend less time manually typing subreddits in or even using Reddit at all. I’m sure something else will take over but for now this and tildes leaves not much. There is more time for books or other things.

I wonder if a huge swath of people started batch edit-deleting poisoning old comments, gpdr delete requests, and deleting accounts that Reddit would respond. It would greatly reduce their search clicks and we’ll be on stackoverflow, discord, or something else soon.

[goodpoint]

I'd rather have a reddit replacement.

[dbg31415]

.net?

Oof. I mean I know it doesn’t really matter, but anything with a .net address just seems dead on arrival.

Are you married to the name / domain?

[anthk]

Also:

lynx gopher://hngopher.com