wireless_purposely832

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting redlib?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You will likely run into the same issues many of the public instances are encountering, regardless of whether your instance is public/private or run behind a proxy or VPN. Either the main Redlib project requires updates to work through the recent Reddit restrictions or you would need to create your own fork (or use someone else’s) that works around the new restrictions.

  Many of the other forks’ current work arounds require entering the credentials of a Reddit account. This either makes you identifiable if you keep the Redlib instance private (all traffic from the provided Reddit account is exclusively “your” traffic) or more likely to be banned if you make the instance public. Regardless, many using this work around assume any Reddit account used by this work around will eventually be banned.

  It’s great that you are looking to selfhost this. However, if this is your first time selfhosting something then unfortunately I think it may be a good idea to try something else first due to some of the recent challenges Redlib is facing. To be clear, selfhosting Redlib isn’t necessarily challenging and is not a very resource intensive application, but it may be discouraging to get everything set up only to find out that your instance doesn’t work (like many of the other ones) or requires regular maintenance due to the changing Reddit restrictions.