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Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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riidom wrote: post #42
qiqitori wrote: post #15

Nitter.net is so much better -- comically better -- than Twitter's site. I'm on a somewhat slow computer right now, and loading a Twitter user's channel (sorry I can't remember the correct Twitter slang) takes like 3-4 seconds on Nitter, and like 10 seconds on Twitter. And scrolling on Twitter is supper choppy, on Nitter it's just normal. Twitter's frontend code could be a good one for thedailywtf.com.

Is there a browser addon that would turn twitter links into nitter links automatically on click? I access twitter only via links usually, when someone refers to a tweet. A quick test by replacing "tw" with "n" in the URL led to "not found", so apparently it's not that easy. Edit: Reading capability is a clear advantage. It's .net, not .com, actually it works. Though editing is less comfortable now, so question still…

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Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by jonititan »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #2

How 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…

Yeah and seeing it from the other side as a cafe owner you have so many different sites to manage to try and help people find out where you are, when you are open, and the events you have running. Would really love some sort of framework for managing all those competing offering for location services. An open source framework in particular would be ace although it would mean the vast majority of small businesses wouldn't use it. Too little time.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by topdancing »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #2

How 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…

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours

You go around, survey the opening hours posted on local restaurants (I usually take a photo, and don't copy and paste from other sources as this normally goes against their T&C) and then add these to openstreetmap.org.

Then next time apps like organicmaps.app update, you'll have all the local opening hours for restaurants and things directly on your device.

I have found that places usually change opening houes by an hour or two.

And if anyone reads this and thinks: "well, that sounds like a chore", this is the only solution I've found that:

1. Is under an open data license

2. Is easily editable as a normal user

3. Isn't backed by "Big Tech" that can wall it off

4. At least has apps that make the data searchable in an offline way

5. Fully exposes the data in open formats (just zoom in on the map, right click on an object and press "Query features" for a basic example or see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Databases_and_data_acces... )

But like anything else, you need people to contribute to it.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by Mwurk »

riidom wrote: post #42
qiqitori wrote: post #15

Nitter.net is so much better -- comically better -- than Twitter's site. I'm on a somewhat slow computer right now, and loading a Twitter user's channel (sorry I can't remember the correct Twitter slang) takes like 3-4 seconds on Nitter, and like 10 seconds on Twitter. And scrolling on Twitter is supper choppy, on Nitter it's just normal. Twitter's frontend code could be a good one for thedailywtf.com.

Is there a browser addon that would turn twitter links into nitter links automatically on click? I access twitter only via links usually, when someone refers to a tweet. A quick test by replacing "tw" with "n" in the URL led to "not found", so apparently it's not that easy. Edit: Reading capability is a clear advantage. It's .net, not .com, actually it works. Though editing is less comfortable now, so question still…

The 'Privacy Redirect' addon does exactly that, you can turn it on/off per website

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by timdaub »

I'm a daily user of nitter. As someone without a Twitter account, nitter has legit a 10x better UX than Twitter. It loads super fast and just works. On Twitter, it seems the "X" to remove the sign up popup is first run through 10 react js virtual dom frameworks, it's so sluggish.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by 3np »

mendel5 wrote: post #45
3np wrote: post #37

Many of these lists seem reluctant to include alternatives for which no publicly accessible hosted instance is provided. I have made rimgu[0] for imgur. There are a small number of edge-cases (for example the stackexchange subsite) it doesn't handle yet but otherwise I find it works great. On a similar note, I find Piped[1] superior to any of the other alternatives for YT I tried so far, including invidious. [0]: htt…

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the alternative-front-ends repo. I didn't know about rimgu yet and just added it to the Imgur section [0]. [0] https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#imgur

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Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by matheusmoreira »

j1elo wrote: post #32

> On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed. I had been a user of Barinsta, until the creator was hit with legal threats from Facebook. It was then when I saw it clear that these types of projects are better to be developed anonymously, so without any add…

Yeah. Would be nice if there was a git hosting tor hidden service.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by grishka »

j1elo wrote: post #32

> On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed. I had been a user of Barinsta, until the creator was hit with legal threats from Facebook. It was then when I saw it clear that these types of projects are better to be developed anonymously, so without any add…

The big problem with our society is that somehow there apparently are laws that would protect these companies from adversarial interoperability, so these threats actually have teeth. I kinda wish to see one of such cases brought to a court to see it ruled in favor of the developer.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by finnx »

chii wrote: post #10
noisy_boy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Dummy account didn't work for me. It just asks for a selfie verification after a day or so and images you find online, ml generated photos etc. gets rejected.

Re: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Post by Hasnep »

j1elo wrote: post #32

> On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed. I had been a user of Barinsta, until the creator was hit with legal threats from Facebook. It was then when I saw it clear that these types of projects are better to be developed anonymously, so without any add…

> At most they might ask GitHub to close the repo

There are also reports of Instagram accounts being banned for using Barinsta.

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