Hey all,
I use redlib instead of reddit for the info I still need to access on that platform. Recently, and with the API changes, the existing public instances being unreliabile cause of that I was maybe looking to host an instance myself. I don’t know if I wanna keep it private or not but in the scenario that I do make it a public instance, how would I manage this? Is it a good idea to host this in my home, cause I have a residential IP. I dont want to get that banned by reddit, so residential proxies? I assume a random VPN would be blocked. Also what about bot protection? Anubis and crowdsec? What specs would be needed for such an instance?
Thank you!
Edit 30/10: well I guess if reddit is going to be requiring logins I’ll just go pound sand 😢
Your best bet is to stop using reddit and start a similar community here on lemmy
Yeah, but still, having the option is good, and also historical info is sadly still locked on reddit.
I use the libredirect extension so that when I end up with a reddit result in searches it redirects. But yeah most of the time it doesn’t work now.
I host an instance for my own personal use. It lives on my local network and nowhere else. I just use wg-tunnel on my phone to automagically VPN home when I’m out. It’s just not worth the headache to expose it publically IMO.
This is how I do it, and for good reason: Reddit aggressively rate limits API calls. I’ve read they’ve limited us to ~100 requests / 10 minutes. That’s fine if you run an instance just for yourself. If you’re hosting a popular public instance, chances are you’ll run into a brick wall pretty quickly.
Believe this is related: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib/issues/598
It does to me seem the maintance of redlib has stagmated quite a bit lately. A lot of random forks woth supposed fixes etc. Afaik right now redlib is at least not able to read comments on posts, but can still view just the posts in feeds.
If you absolutely want to use reddit the look into using Morphe patches on the reddit app instead.
I’ve been hosting this Redlib fork for my own personal use behind Netbird to access a couple of niche communities with great success.
Oh yeah, specs.
The service runs dockerized in a Proxmox lxc Debian container next to searxng and uses little in the way of resources:
0.61% of 1 CPU
Memory usage
21.95% (449.54 MiB of 2.00 GiB)
Bootdisk size
70.03% (8.20 GiB of 11.71 GiB)Curious to hear what you find out as I thought about doing something similar as there is still one specific community that I follow on reddit.
