this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
182 points (96.9% liked)

Selfhosted

40296 readers
329 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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_[email protected] Asked the following:

Comment thread (view)

@[email protected]: So this’ll make use of other Instagram viewers instead of directly going to Instagram itself?

@[email protected]: 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that case, why not just use Pixelfed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

It ain't much, but is honest work (View)