Why? Fuck Instagram.
Awesome! Got it running and seems to work well. Also I love the
CLAUDE.mdfile you got there in the repo 🐈I’m happy someone noticed it
Read it now. It made my day a bit better :)
It would be great if people could stop using Meta services and software.
It would be great if people stop using social media in general.
Lemmy is social media
What is the social part? I change my name daily, and dont really give a shit about people following me.
No, it is a social network. That’s different from social media.
Its not a car, its a vehicle!
What would you define social media as?
Oxford says.
websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
That definition certainly matches Lemmy.
Social networking is about connecting people, which Lemmy as a forum does. You could argue that the function of Lemmy as a link aggregator is more social media like, but I doubt people would consider an RSS feed reader to be social media either.
Social media is like TV, a one-to-many medium, usually with some sort of feed curation to promote certain topics.
Social networking is about connecting people
Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.
I have never heard anyone refer to TV as social media, I have always heard it in context with facebook, twitter and co.
a better objection, which makes me uncertain whether lemmy is social media, is that this is a pseudonymous forum where its not common for users to become friends or know each other, and discussion is not around a specific news site or a specific person, but around specific topics
That’s a totally made up definition from your part. Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary”. A social media is just the middleman that allows people to socialize. Lemmy is a social media, as well as a social network.
Every definition is “made up” 🙄
What I explained is how these terms are commonly used on the fediverse.
And anyways, if “social media” and “social network” is the same, why have two different terms for it?
Cool! Keeping up with platform changes is a challenge for projects like this. I think to be successful beyond initial popularity you need an active community that can do this together. It’s draining for just one person - especially once you get big enough that they might actively break things just to mess with your integration. Following maintenance of alternative YouTube clients as well as searx-ng is illustrative.
Not to discourage but be prepared. Best of luck!
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
I’ve already read that article, the situation on Instagram has changed a bit, which makes scraping easier.
Ratelimits are still a problem if you don’t have a residential IP, but I have a workaround for that (which I’m hesitant to share publicly).
Nice. After Bilbogram was discontinued, I believe we all were waiting for an replacement.
awesome! i hope this stays around.
would be nice if it also saved/archived everything it downloads from instagram and sends it to the internet archive
It would be cool if this was ActivityPub compatible so we could follow Instagram from Mastodon. As much as I hate meta, there are some artists I would like to follow still
Check https://kilogram.makeup/
Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.
Though excellent work!
I would like to add RSS, I don’t think it’s feasible https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
A much-requested feature I added early on was RSS feeds. This ended up getting quickly turned off for the main instance, because RSS usage was dwarfing interactive usage. Many of these feeds had been added to people’s readers and forgotten about. Even today I still receive a decent number of forgotten requests for feeds — these forgotten feeds haven’t returned useful data for more than two years. Feed requests aren’t free. Bibliogram needs to make an outgoing web request, wait for it, and convert the response data. This also uses up a piece of Bibliogram’s rate limit to Instagram, even if nobody’s there to see the feed that Bibliogram generates.
I could add it, but have it disabled by default, so anyone hosting a personal instance can enable it.
Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.
Isn’t it better to stop using Instagram at all? Insted of trying self-hosted shenanigans…
I don’t use Twitter nor insta, but sometimes I get shared a link and nitter handy to check it out without an account. So I applaud this
This is how I use front end apps. Other than the data contained in the posts, I have no interest in Insta, FB, et al. Similar to how I use RedLib for Reddit because, despite Reddit turning into a cesspool, there are still some great technical subs that contain valuable info. Interacting on Reddit tho, is a hard pass.
This doesn’t let you interact with Instagram, it just lets you view profiles/posts
its better to quit heroin, but safe injection sites are good for public health
Still easier to uninstall an app than dealing with abstinence syndrome… but if you think beyond that stop watching asses on the internet is like stop doing heroin. So finally I think what you say is fair.
I’m not “using” Instagram actively, but sometimes I want to see a public profile and it doesn’t let me. Didn’t check this out yet but if it doesn’t need a login it could help with this
Awesome work!
Codeberg is down, what’s the URL?
My instance is https://kittygram.irelephant.net/
Cool, thank you. Would be cool if we were able to follow accounts from there…
thats possible apparently: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23840511
LOL its broken already.
well Instagram is serious about ratelimits
looks great! Thank you for making this
Pretty sure Bibliogram was inspired by Nitter before it became deprecated. Hope to see this flourish.
Doing the lords work, thank you
