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Proxigram: A privacy focused and open source front-end for Instagram (codeberg.org)

submitted 2 years ago by ThePenguinDev@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In my experience these tend to stop working pretty fast. Instagram would shut down all the proxies on the last project really fast.

[–] ThePenguinDev@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I witnessed the death of two great projects too: Bibliogram and Barinsta, I mentioned before that Bibliogram's death was the reason to create Proxigram. The way Proxigram works is that it scrapes the data off others Instagram viewers online, it has multiple providers and more will be added in the future.

@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works Asked the following:

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@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works: So this’ll make use of other Instagram viewers instead of directly going to Instagram itself?

@ThePenguinDev@lemmy.world: Basically, but maybe in the future Instagram support is added, just I didn’t want it to make it dependable on scraping Instagram since they are more likely to block the instance. If Instagram support is added in the future, since a random provider is selected every time, is less likely to get blocked by Instagram.

[–] Midnitte@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In that case, why not just use Pixelfed?

[–] ThePenguinDev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Pixelfed is great! But as much as I like the Fediverse, not everyone is here. :(

But I have a plan, to encourage people to use Pixelfed. Since I have to create error pages for the project, I have one in mind. When an instance gets rate limited/blocked, there will be a notice to use another instance (or create one) and a paragraph (or link) to encourage the use of Pixelfed.

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