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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    There was the Pushshift project, which archived all of Reddit's posts and comments in text (JSON) form. You can download the data here: posts, comments.

    If you're on Linux, once you have downloaded and extracted the respective file, you could run something like grep -m 1 '"id":"11eoagd"' RS_2023-03 | jq, where 11eoagd is the post ID. It's not pretty, but it works.

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