Doesn’t running a local instance mean your activity is tied to your API key and your IP address?
If that’s the case, I feel like browsing old.reddit behind a VPN is more private and less fuss (though I’m willing to be proven wrong!)
Edit: from Libreddit’s Public Instances are Shutting Down #840:
Their new limits mean the project would only work for small instances and who authenticate using OAuth, effectively voiding any privacy benefits of using Libreddit.
Coffee is good, caffeine increases the effect of painkillers like paracetamol and ibuprofen
(I’m displeasedly rugged up at home with the worst cold I’ve ever gotten, it’s almost as unpleasant as the plague but isn’t)
I think kbin/Lemmy is already showing promise as a community gathering-place, but it’s nowhere near useable for being a repository of knowledge like Reddit is - if you want to know how to download videos from an obscure local streaming platform in a small country, hear experiences of doctors treating a specific chronic condition, or find answers to a highly specific scientific question, a quick search with site:reddit.com would usually give you the answer, and if you didn’t there would usually be a relevant sub with someone knowledgeable in the field.
It’s going to take many years for kbin/Lemmy to reach this status of a digital Great Library of Alexandria (if at all), and so much information is still going to be lost if Reddit shuts down.
When we had the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 in Australia we were recommended to stock up on P2 (local equivalent to N95) masks for the smoke, and we never expected we’d end up using them for a completely different reason only a few months later