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Policy2026-06-13 · source-backed

Reddit is aggressively rate-limiting RSS feeds, and there's a workaround.

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Lapcat Software documented the new limits plus a practical fix for keeping feed access alive. It matters for anyone building ingestion pipelines, monitoring tools, or agents that summarize Reddit. It's another data point in platforms tightening programmatic access in the AI-scraping era. The open-data assumptions a lot of pipelines were built on keep quietly expiring.

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