Submitted 3 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world@lemmy.world
https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram
Kittygram is an Instagram frontend, like nitter and invideous.
A lot has changed since I first posted about it. Kittygram now has:
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.
would be a constant game of
catkitty and mouse.
Come on, it was right there!
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 days ago A constant game of cat and also cat
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.
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
I’ve been keeping up with changes for the last ~9 months.
Well then good thing it already says meow!
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.
Cambridge Analytical was less of a failure to guard the data, and more of an assistance helping the robbers load it up out the back door.
KRAW@linux.community 3 days ago Just fyi, I tried one of your instances. Searched a user, clicked a result, and got an error.
I just tried a random user and it worked, that was probably temporary. That issue has popped up before.
KRAW@linux.community 2 days ago I tried the same user, and it worked for me just now. Thanks for working on this project!
Same issue here. Tried several users and for every one of them I got the same error. Example URL: kittygram.irelephant.net/gudim_public
Huh. That was working yesterday. I’ll take a look soon
i used to keep instaloader to periodically scrape a few accounts from instagram for archival and viewing, however i got frequent ‘suspicious activity’ alerts and ended up being banned (got asked for face scan or some shit)
i believe barinsta (android foss client) also triggered their bot detector quite frequently back when it was developed…
may i ask how it’s been with kittygram? it looks really nice, i’m hoping this can replace imginn for my usage
How do the atom feeds work? Can you get a feed of a user?
Due to ratelimits, I don’t think any instance has atom feeds enabled yet. If one does, it would be at /:username/atom.xml.
ludrol@szmer.info@szmer.info 1 day ago Thanks! Used few times when friends sent me unretrivable posts on the phone due dark patterns.
I swear that most FOSS names are bad on purpose to keep people from using them.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago Aside from a lot of the ones that are abbreviations (like GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP), most of them are fine I think.
Immich, it sounds like “image”, which makes sense for photo hosting. Inkscape is a landscape of ink, suitable for a vector graphics editor. “Chrono”, the clock app on Android, is named after the embodiment of time. Radicale, the CalDAV self-hosted service, is the word “radical” conjoined with “calendar”. KeePass is a password manager, a master key is used to unlock the vault. KDE likes to put “K” in front of a lot of their app names. KCalc, KGet, Konsole, KOrganizer, KAlarm, KWrite. Their functions are pretty self explanatory. Okular is a PDF reader by KDE, and the name is a play on the word “ocular”, used to describe vision, but with a “K”! MarkText lets you write text in Markdown format. LibreOffice is a free (as in freedom, or libre) open-source office suite. Writer, Impress, and Calc are related to documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. And then there are all the apps that are not unique and are simply what they are. Think “Offline Translator”, “OSS Document Scanner”, etc. (very common with a lot of Android apps I use)
I would imagine Kittygram refers to the vast quantities of cat photos on Instagram.
I wouldn’t say most, but I do agree that I won’t be using this purely based on name.
Feel free to fork it and give it a different name
What’s wrong with kittygram? How’s that any weirder then say Pringles? Like what the heck is a “Pringle” anyway? A potato tingle?
Coca-cola literally has the reference to Cocaine in it. In Spanish it’s even weirder because Coca is actually the slang word for Cocaine, so it basically says “Cocaine Tail”.
And Facebook??? A face that’s a book???
There’s plenty of extremely weird words you use or see daily. You’ve just been brainwashed to see them as normal because you’ve been marketed to about them since birth essentially.
If you heard of kittygram since you were 7, and saw kittygram ads constantly growing up, you wouldn’t so much as blink about the name.
Some machanics paint their tools pink to keep them from being stolen because they are not „manly“.
This sounds like something you would also complain about.
I think you might have some insecurities about your gender that you project on me.
A name can be stupid at the same time that I like pink stuff.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 days ago Saving this for later. Was hoping to find an insta front end for my tablet!
Could this ever be “self hosted” on a phone, in the future? Eg run as a web app, basically?
That would get around the issue of rate limiting for those of us with no home server.
from a quick look it seems like a lua program with not many external dependencies, perhaps it could already run on termux. guess i should try
If you can get openresty and lapis running, it should work. I didn’t get it running last time I tried in termux.
The screenshot really should have a cat photo on it.
Looks great! GL!
Drinking from a different glass doesn’t change the fact you’re drinking poison.
Eh, most of the poison is the dark patterns in the UI, the relentless engagement optimization, algorithmic recommendations, the tracking, and so on.
This short circuits all of that.
Seems pretty cool! Congrats on your work.
I have been finding Imginn pretty annoying, bloated, and finnicky lately so I’ll attempt to my redirect rule for instagram links to this.
Btw for anyone who wants to take a peek here’s the main instance: https://kittygram.irelephant.net/
Can I donate to the devs and instance ownser using monero?
I don’t have monero donations set up, but the largest instance (kittygr.am ) does.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
> everything is in Lua
Interesting choice.
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CLAUDE.mdAh,
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CLAUDE.mdcontent:Gold. Pure gold.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
This almost seems like a canary. If an AI bot pulls the code and submits a PR, the meow would be and indicator that AI was used.
runiq@feddit.org 2 days ago
Gives me the warm fuzzies.
underscores@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
everything in Lua seems like a major pain in the ass, to each their own
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
How so? Lua (with luajit) is very performant, and since it’s embedded in nginx, you have all the features of nginx in your app