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by hagbard_c 670 days ago
This is the second to last phase of 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win'. While these services are still relevant for you - and that is where the 'winning' starts, when their relevance drops below the level that makes it worth putting effort in fighting them - you can use proxies like libreddit for Reddit, Nitter for TwiXXer (it still works for reading single posts, no idea if it works for 'following' because I have never done that), Invidious for Youtube and (while you're at it) SearxNG for search engines. Once you have found or - better still - installed yourself some proxies of choice you can install a browser extension to automatically redirect any request for those sites to the proxies, two examples of such are Privacy Redirect and LibRedirect.

The advantage of going the proxy route is that you only have to do this once after which you can access those sites from all your devices without needing to install separate apps.

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Libreddit is discontinued, but has been forked as redlib.
The original still works fine but good to hear there is a fork.