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[–] [email protected] 127 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

there is a bridge, but some parts of the fediverse got very mad about it
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/
https://fed.brid.gy/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

OH REALLY?

heh, good one

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

Is this the "agile" development methodology that I heard so much about?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

so this is similar to LibRedirect?
https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
https://libredirect.github.io/
check out this list of privacy frontends and see if you can implement any of them in Predirect

Also, I see that you only handle one instance for redirect. Either the default instance or custom instance.
Consider implementing multiple instances. Here is list of instances that LibRedirect uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libredirect/instances/main/data.json
Here is a list of instances that Farside.link uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benbusby/farside/master/services-full.json

Both LibRedirect and Farside still have to deal with the rate-limiting problem with Youtube and Reddit and I assume other sites as well. Invidious instance or Teddit instance can be rate-limited, resulting in video not playing or post not showing up.
If your extension does not distribute user traffic across multiple instances, then I assume that your chosen instances will get hammered into ratelimit even faster than other instances.
So consider thinking about solution for this.
One of suggestions that I like is to allow user to provide an URL to a list of instances.
That way, someone or some automated system can periodically compose a list of instances and users can "subscribe" to that list.

Also some useful links:
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#social-networks-and-platforms
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://matrix.to/#/#alternative-frontends:tchncs.de

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

reminds me of that joke from Futurama

Zapp:

You, ensign, whats your name?

Hugh Man

Hugh Man sir!

Zapp:

Now that's a name you can trust.

 

hyperlinked text is greentext in the web UI if dark mode is used.

but is there any way to make text appear green regardless of which interface is being used?

 

very relevant song these days
also remember Digg?