Apparently Reddit has a bot problem, not the bots posting and replying but the ones scraping so Reddit is a little bit usable. When Reddit blocked API access 3 years ago I built and launched https://rdx.overdevs.com/ a read-only, open source Reddit website and app.
I have been bombarded with comments and mails asking why it is not working now, and the reason is this. Reddit has blocked JSON endpoint to access whatever limited data it allowed to acceess and is thinking of blocking RSS feeds.
Reddit announcement - https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting_communities_from_scrapers_and_platform/
Yeah the Stealth app stopped working too. Guess this explains it. Fuck reddit, but it still has some really good communities that I like to lurk. Gardening, knots, etc.
I would love to completely shift to lemmy since I got permanent banned , but there are few niche subs that are just not present here and I don’t think most users of those subs will move here