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Kittygram is an Instagram frontend, like nitter and invideous.
A lot has changed since I first posted about it. Kittygram now has:
- a developer API
- atom feeds
- ratelimit tracking
- explore/popular pages
- more themes
Given how Facebook aggressively guard their assets (i.e. their users’ contents and relationships), I imagine keeping this working would be a constant game of cat and mouse.
Well then good thing it already says meow!
It’s not too bad, but yeah, stuff does break. Instagram’s code is dogshit though, so there’s a lot of workarounds for most stuff.
Come on, it was right there!
A constant game of cat and also cat
tbh it’s a hard balance for any social media company.
Guard content too little and you end up with Cambridge Analytica, which was literally because the public APIs allowed too much access (third-party apps could see any data through the API that you could see through your Facebook account, including friends profiles). You also end up with headlines talking about big data leaks which really just end up being compilations of public data (which has happened to both Facebook and LinkedIn).
Guard content too much and you restrict users’ freedom too much.
Cambridge Analytical was less of a failure to guard the data, and more of an assistance helping the robbers load it up out the back door.
All the data gathered by Cambridge Analytica was gathered through the public API though, after users had consented to share it (by logging into a quiz app that requested the permissions). That’s why the API is very locked down now, and the approval process to get any sort of data access is very strict.
The main issue was that they gathered data from people whose profiles were set to be visible only to friends. If someone logged into the quiz and granted permissions, their friends’ data was also accessible via the API.
Things like this have to be constantly maintained for that reason, look also at yt-dlp. For that, I’ll give it a month, see how they’re doing then before setting up a personal interest. Worried they’ll abandon it
I’ve been keeping up with changes for the last ~9 months.
How is it?
How is what? Keeping up with changes? It’s not too hard, it doesn’t happen too often, and I can usually get stuff fixed quick enough.
Ah my mistake, you’re the developer! Stand by my comments but wish you luck. I was looking to see if anyone had set it up and what their opinions were. I have a stack at home and could stand one up, deciding on it still now. I prefer fedi everything, but there are celebrities/professionals that only use insta and stuck with it.