Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down
It appears that Teddit has been effectively shut down via extreme rate limits by Reddit rendering the app unusable. HTTP Error 429 is now returned nearly 100% of the time.
It had been a crappy habit for a while, so I'm not going to go out of my way to get back into it after I was given the gift of disrupting it.
My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
I'm considering running one "privately", but am worried about it being "discovered" and abused with unwanted traffic. And setting it behind a VPN seems like a hassle.
The official instructions use nginx as a reverse proxy. If you don't want to set up something like Wireguard, you can use HTTP basic authentication[0] to make it inaccessible/invisible without a username/password. (You definitely want to also set up certbot[1] for SSL if you go this route.)
[0]: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/c...
Also comes in handy when traveling, for services like Netflix that geoblock you based on your IP address.
(It would actually be cool if this sort of error detecting was added to Libredirect so the user wouldn't have to keep clicking "switch instance" when it gets rate limited.)