Libreddit

An alternative private front-end to Reddit

Libre + Reddit = Libreddit

• 🚀 Fast: written in Rust for blazing fast speeds and safety
• ☁️ Light: no javascript, no ads, no tracking
• 🕵 Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media
• 🔒 Safe: does not rely on Reddit's OAuth-requiring APIs
• 📱 Responsive: works great on mobile!

Think Invidious but for Reddit. Watch your cat videos without being watched.

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Status

• [x] Hosting
  • [x] Instances
  • [x] Clearnet instance
  • [ ] .onion instance
  • [x] Cargo deployment
  • [x] Docker deployment
• [x] Subreddits
  • [x] Title
  • [x] Description
  • [x] Posts
  • [x] Post sorting
• [x] Posts
  • [x] Flairs
  • [x] Comments
  • [x] Comment sorting
  • [ ] Nested comments
  • [x] UTC post date
  • [x] Image thumbnails
  • [x] Embedded images
  • [x] Proxied images
  • [x] Reddit-hosted video
  • [x] Proxied video

• [x] Users

  • [x] Username
  • [x] Karma
  • [x] Description
  • [x] Post history
  • [x] Comment history

• [ ] Search

  • [ ] Post aggregating
  • [ ] Comment aggregating
  • [ ] Result sorting

Instances

• libredd.it 🇺🇸 (Thank you to YeapGuy!)
• libreddit.spike.codes 🇺🇸

Installation

A) Cargo

Make sure Rust stable is installed along with cargo, Rust's package manager.

cargo install libreddit

B) Docker

Deploy the Docker image of Libreddit: docker run -d --name libreddit -p 8080:8080 spikecodes/libreddit

Deploy using a different port (in this case, port 80): docker run -d --name libreddit -p 80:8080 spikecodes/libreddit

C) AUR

Libreddit is available from the Arch User Repository as libreddit-git.

Install: yay -S libreddit-git

D) GitHub Releases

If you're on Linux and none of these methods work for you, you can grab a Linux binary from the newest release.

Deploy an Instance

Once installed, deploy Libreddit (unless you're using Docker) by running:

libreddit

Specify a custom address for the server by passing the -a or --address argument: libreddit --address=0.0.0.0:8111

To disable the media proxy built into Libreddit, run: libreddit --no-default-features

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit cd libreddit cargo run