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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

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[–] macallik@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to the settings, ping the instances, and add a handful with good ping.

I cycle through 3-4 instances using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Alt + L is the default but you can change it via your brower's extension settings) and usually find one that's up and running.

[–] derf82@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually just go to an instance itself. Sounds like you are using an extension?

[–] macallik@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] derf82@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I found an instance that is working better, but still with a lot of errors.