It appears API rate limiting has effectively killed these alternatives. You essentially get nothing but “Too many requests” 429 errors.

Lemmy sadly does not have the active niche news and discussions I want. But now nothing can be read without going to Reddit. I hate Spez

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    I just started using rss for the communities I still want to know about.
    You only need to add the reddit name of the community and .rss at the end in your reader.
    For example https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/hot.rss

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      RSS feeds started throwing 429 errors today, like I predicted. They were never going to leave this loophole open.

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        Which reader are you using?
        I’m selfhosting FreshRSS and it keeps working

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      Is there any way to get sorting? Biggest problem seems to be that RSS is chronological only. Also, it doesn’t seem to provide any of the comments.