It’s not too bad, but yeah, stuff does break. Instagram’s code is dogshit though, so there’s a lot of workarounds for most stuff.
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
Given how Facebook aggressively guard their assets (i.e. their users’ contents and relationships), I imagine keeping this working would be a constant game of cat and mouse.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago Things like this have to be constantly maintained for that reason, look also at yt-dlp. For that, I’ll give it a month, see how they’re doing then before setting up a personal interest. Worried they’ll abandon it
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’ve been keeping up with changes for the last ~9 months.
- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
How is it?
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How is what? Keeping up with changes? It’s not too hard, it doesn’t happen too often, and I can usually get stuff fixed quick enough.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
aggressively guard
It’s a hard balance for any social media company. Guard content too little and you end up with Cambridge Analytica and headlines talking about big data leaks (which really just end up being compilations of public data). Guard content too much and you restrict users’ freedom too much.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
All the data gathered by Cambridge Analytica was gathered through the public API though, which is why the API is very locked down now.
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 months ago
Come on, it was right there!
A constant game of cat and also cat