teddit VS Reddit

Someone should just convert the Teddit UI into a Lemmy theme.

https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

Why scrapy if you have teddit? These kinds of projects are the best tbh

Not really everyone's cup of tea but as an interesting aside... I've recently become quite enamoured with the various "alternative frontends" that are floating around, like invidious for youtube or teddit for reddit. These are not just about blocking ads, (although they do that), they also make these platforms less hostile to your mental health.

Teddit is the equivalent of Invidious but just like Invidious you can't log in, it would beat the purpose if you could. Most of that TOS would still apply if you are logged trough an app or front end. tracking you can minimize by opting out and using with uBlock Origin.

The archiving began in earnest when I started limiting my time exlusively to the FTF. Before that I focused more on archiving fanart, fanfiction and mods for a later use I still want to get to at some point. My archives of FTF threads are HTML files downloaded though the teddit frontend(https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit). Though my archive is much bigger than that. To fill in the backlog of posts from before I started archiving manually I used a Python script to scrape the reddit pushshift archive https://github.com/pushshift/api in order to make sure that I grabbed every comment said in any thread created by JustMonika as well her post text though this backlog data is not easily browsable in its current form, its a whole lot of JSON.

Before writing something from scratch, look at a load of open source projects that do parts of what you need, like: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit. But there are loads more to research.

Teddit.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out.

https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

[2]: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit