this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Use a libreddit mirror like https://reddit.adminforge.de to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread.

For example, if the Reddit link is:

https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/

Then you simply have to replace old.reddit.com by reddit.adminforge.de so that the link becomes:

https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is good to know and could be something I'd use a lot, but it isn't working. Every Reddit address I try it on, the reply is "Nothing here. Head back home?"

Does the page need to be pre-prepared, like a web.archive.org address?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could try another instance. Here's a list for you https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md

Or you could get this add-on and have it do it for you https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

do you have an example where it doesn't work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will that website be killed by the api changes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then isn't adminforge requesting that content in some way from Reddit which is at least a boost to their stats?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.

For sites like Google's cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once.

the link in this post (which is 2h old) has comments, newest i found just 35 minutes old, so it at least do some refreshes.