Bibliogram - View Instagram with Privacy

[ericdrgn]

Code: https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudrac3r/bibliogram

Like Invidious (YouTube) and Nitter (Twitter) this provides a front end to view Instagram without the tracking. I think providing these services is important and would like to see these added to Cloudron.

[timconsidine]

@ericdrgn said in Bibliogram - View Instagram with Privacy:

I think providing these services is important

[jdaviescoates]

I'd like this too. Although I'd note that none of the public instances I've visited recently actually work. Instagram is obviously blocking them. I'd guess a lower-use self-hosted instance could fair better, but I imagine it could also fall foul to similar blocks.

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates I found one that was working.
Lost it now but will see if I can find it again.
But for the reasons you state, I would prefer to self-host.
I think Instagram only cares about the big feeds, they're not interested or bothered about the little fish.

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates I did have https://bibliogram.snopyta.org working to provide a user's feed by RSS
But I can't get it working now
Maybe they are blocking more aggressively
I guess anything listed as a source with multiple users is going to hit some limits and attract attention.
But there is still a chance it may work for a tiny self-hosted instance.
I will try it on my docker VPS and see if it builds, although their source page doesn't exhibit much confidence !

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates so I tried the docker image for bibliogram (docker run not the docker-compose route)
It actually starts and runs fine.

But there is an immediate block from instagram
Kinda surprises me but maybe Insta has some way of detecting even a fresh Bibligram instance

Or they're still recovering from the FB outage and blocked a lot of things

Anyway, while it would be nice to have a working Bibliogram, I don't have time to debug or look for workarounds just now.

EDIT : there are 2 other install routes. I don't think they will include anything which acts to get around a block, but conceptually they might. Haven't tried them, just noting it in case someone wants to try one of the other routes.

[robi]

They may be checking user-agent, so if that's a setting, set it for a common browser.

[ericdrgn]

@timconsidine That's interesting I used it (the one you linked) before I posted it and just checked again with profile's I didn't check last night and it all works smoothly on my end.

Either way I do think it would work in small instances as you've mentioned.

[timconsidine]

@robi good tip thank you

[LoudLemur]

@timconsidine What is the latest on Bibliogram on Cloudron?

[timconsidine]

@loudlemur I have given up as Instagram seem very effective at blocking Bibliogram, even self-hosted.

[LoudLemur]

@timconsidine Thanks for trying and letting us know. It looks like we will need a new way of framing Instagram, or an altogether better replacement.

[jdaviescoates]

@loudlemur said in Bibliogram - View Instagram with Privacy:

an altogether better replacement.

Pixelfed. Already in the App Store