how to instances perform compared to libreddit when it comes to rate limiting, can I just pick an instance an have confidence that It won’t be rate-limited most of the time ?
No it uses reddits available JSON versions of pages, the same ones loaded by the official site. I don’t know if there would be rate limiting using your own account.
Just checked out safereddit and it’s indeed a pretty cool project, feels lightweight 👍. Ironically, so much effort for a website which doesn’t even like you. I mean Reddit is why I am using Lemmy now.
Since reddit closed off their API does this just scrape the sote instead? That’s pretty resource intensive. If it’s not self hosted what’s the incentive for this?
EDIT: Ah ok nevermind you can self host. I misread the post.
It mentions limited functionality if you don’t pass it an account so likely as not it’s passing your user token along with a web browser header, scraping reddit, then yanking out whatever it’s filtering and then serving what’s left (likely just the text and vote metadata) in a locally hosted or remote hosted (not on reddit servers) site.
So it wears a mask that has your usernames face on it, knocks on reddit’s door, asks reddit your question, then comes back to you with only the relevant info that you have told it to bring back.
That’s only if my cursory reading is correct. I’d defer to a dev or someone else more interested in the project.
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