"Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit"

You all need to find the courage to close with reddit forever. It's done, don't you see it? Everything was taken away from apps to moderators power, purge of old messages, and soon the reward system. What this suppost to mean? What else will be removed? It is in falldown.

I gave up on Reddit the day Apollo died and haven’t looked back. Lemmy’s a nicer place.

Oh, hey! I'm the guy behind tedd.it. Didn't really expect to see it here, but thank you for the mention!

I've been running tedd.it for just about over a year now, and it's heartbreaking for me to end it this way. tedd.it was the choice of thousands for a safer, simpler, more private way to browse reddit. I'm a big online privacy advocate, so hosting this instance was a mission for me more than anything: to help others improve their privacy, even if just a little bit.

Sadly, with how much traffic tedd.it is seeing, there is no way I could possibly pay for API access. Even with lots of caching, we're speaking tens of thousands of dollars at least. With the site constantly rate-limited now, there's no point in keeping it up - it's not exactly cheap to host, even before the API changes. I had to make this difficult choice.

It's worth mentioning that tedd.it is just one instance of the teddit project. Obviously I don't speak for the entire project, but from conversations I had with other hosts I believe the feelings are mutual. The project is already kinda stale with the maintainer very low on activity, and Reddit's third party apps ban feels like the final nail in the coffin.

I'm a big supporter of the Fediverse. I think it's our best attempt at building a better social media for everyone. I'm already on Mastodon and now with reddit going rogue I figured I could use the reach of tedd.it to help more people find their home here.

And for those who asked: why Lemmy? It's just my personal preference. Kbin is also great! I just found Lemmy more user friendly personally. But hey, that's the beauty of the Fediverse: we're all allies here ❤️

Thanks again for the spotlight. Feel free to ask any questions you might have! Cheers ✌️

I’ll stick with kbin, but we’re all friends here. 👍

Unfortunate but inevitable given the API changes. I only used teddit for a short time to check on a few subreddits during the protest/blackout period. This really marks the end of me visiting reddit in any form or fashion now.

Yay for the lemm.ee mention!

uh oh, i want to kinda keep lemm.ee on the down low cuz it's awesome and I don't want more traffic lol

this is just one of the instances
there are many more instances according to https://farside.link/ (which is a thing that will automatically redirect you to one of them: https://farside.link/teddit/ ) so by using this, you help reduce the load on individual instance, resulting in less "too many requests" errors for everyone.

mlmym.org mimics oldreddit. I was turned on to it this morning, please spread the word. It's like going home. it pulls from whatever lemmy you're using so you don't have to worry about losing your stuff.

Oh come on, I just started using it two days ago! Libreddit often doesn't work these days.

Ngl that lemmy home page is offputting to non-techy users

So is Lemmy going to stick? Have daily users gone down? I hate to say I stepped back to Reddit because there just isn’t enough content on Lemmy for my taste yet.

tedd.it is not the only teddit instance, nor even one i knew, with the main one being teddit.net. that being said its heavily unusable in its current state without running your own personal instance to stay under the api limits https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit ... that being said, screw that noise, im here instead.

I wonder if it’s time for someone to spin up a site like https://killedbygoogle.com/ except for Reddit. Maybe killedbyspez.com or killedbyreddit.com?

Teddit went out in style with that message. Thank you dev, I used teddit often. Forgive me keeping the bookmark on my toolbar just for a few more days.

Hope that anyone who was using it and not switching to lemmy is encouraged to do so now.

Too bad as I just found it a week ago, but totally understandable.

I have been using teddit and libreddit for quite some time. Way better than reddit's trash website

are you the protesters who can't quite quit so you're trying to access reddit any way other than the official way? how pathetic lmfao so desperate

people really are losing their minds over quitting reddit