Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
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Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#2How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell.
Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will be inaccessible without logging in. This became even worse with covid, where I had to basically guess which part of their service was open.
So I was hoping for some workaround, like using nitter to bypass Twitter's new account requirements, but it looks like I'm out of luck.
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#3The very first thing I tried was Invidious
> As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance,
Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu
> Could not get channel info.
Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ?
> Could not get channel info.
Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel, AvE.
> Could not get channel info.
Ok, maybe I should go to the front page of invidious-us.kavin.rocks and search for AvE. Ahah! There he is! I'll try clicking on his first video[0]. Well, the page appears to load but the video spins a loading spinner for a couple of minutes and then I get
> The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
I think I'll stick with Youtube.
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#4The very first thing I tried was Invidious > As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance, Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu > Could not get channel info. Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ? > Could not get channel info. Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel,…
In case of a problem, "Switch Invidious Instance" (left menu, below video) -> pick another front-end from the long list of ad-free alternatives.
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#5The very first thing I tried was Invidious > As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance, Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu > Could not get channel info. Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ? > Could not get channel info. Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel,…
Try Piped. It works without any problem
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#6How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…
Sad state of affairs. One alternative could be to create a dummy account for this purpose, turn-off every notification, add no friends and use it only for the purpose of accessing pages for businesses (I don't use Facebook at all personally but the way things are going, I may have to resort to such shenanigans).
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#7How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…
Sad state of affairs. One alternative could be to create a dummy account for this purpose, turn-off every notification, add no friends and use it only for the purpose of accessing pages for businesses (I don't use Facebook at all personally but the way things are going, I may have to resort to such shenanigans).
Out of curiosity, can Facebook do something more with a dummy account presumably linked to you IP than they can with any other unregistered person tracked over Facebook Connects, friend's contact syncs, etc.?
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#8The very first thing I tried was Invidious > As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance, Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu > Could not get channel info. Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ? > Could not get channel info. Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel,…
I've had that problem occasionally, but I think that's a bad first impression. I've had an auto youtube -> invidious redirect enabled for about two months now and only encountered issues a few times.
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#9The very first thing I tried was Invidious > As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance, Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu > Could not get channel info. Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ? > Could not get channel info. Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel,…
Yewtu.be seems to work for me
Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
#10How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…
Sad state of affairs. One alternative could be to create a dummy account for this purpose, turn-off every notification, add no friends and use it only for the purpose of accessing pages for businesses (I don't use Facebook at all personally but the way things are going, I may have to resort to such shenanigans).
creating a dummy account might alleviate the immediate issue, but it doesn't really fix the root cause of the problem - which is that the restaurant thinks it's ok to only post on facebook, and assume everyone has access.