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It doesn't work though, and hasn't for a while, and likely never will [0]: Timeline loading blocked Instagram is refusing to provide data to this server. Thi
by 0-_-0 5y ago
It doesn't work though, and hasn't for a while, and likely never will [0]:
Timeline loading blocked
Instagram is refusing to provide data to this server.
This server will only be able to load the first page of timelines.
This error is permanent.
[0]: https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/cadence.moe/gemlog/2020-12-17-future-of-bibliogram.bliz https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/cadence.moe/gemlog/2020-12-1...
- commoner 5y agoIt worked right before I submitted the link to HN. This may be the effect of a temporary traffic surge. The software is open source, so anyone is able to start a new instance, as others did for Invidious and Nitter. Edit: Added list of instances to GP. For some reason, the main instance is still working for me.
- sixhobbits 5y agoI have tried it locally and various hosted instances several times over the last few months and while it occasionally works that error is more common than not. Teddit.net for reddit works amazingly though.
- commoner 5y agoThanks, I've added Teddit to the list. I'm hoping that the attention will help Bibliogram improve.
- Rompect 5y agoImprove how? It was already pretty good. The entire user page and even Instagram TV was supported. But the current situation is not Bibliogram's fault.
- commoner 5y agoMore attention would encourage people to host new instances and help find workarounds for Instagram's rate limiting. There are also some features that are being worked on, such as a search function: https://todo.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-issues/6 https://todo.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-issues/6
- sschueller 5y agoYeah, I am just starting to see 1 star reviews on my repost app (https://github.com/sschueller/easyrepost https://github.com/sschueller/easyrepost) . It's totally broken now. Good thing I open sourced it and gave up on monetization in part to HN horror stories of people building business on top of other services like Facebook. I'm going to abandon this and move on to maybe working on a Pixelfed android client instead.
- sprite 5y agoDoes anyone if there is any case law on this? Are you legally allowed to create 3rd party clients for various services?
- Bjartr 5y agoYou're generally allowed to create them, and the service provider is generally allowed to change their service in ways that break them.
- antif 5y agoCraigslist v. 3Taps may be related/interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc. > case sets a precedent that allows businesses to use the CFAA to keep public data away from competitors
- busymom0 5y agoHad a similar experience myself when 3 years ago IG and FB blocked all third party access to the API and my “best time to post” and scheduler apps all broke.
- graderjs 5y agoThe thing is, what if you leveraged the "cloud" of people, to build a p2p instagram cache/clone perhaps on IPFS or some other p2p store or mesh, where the seeders are people with IG accounts who are logged in, and that living network of people then can feed out data to overyone else logging in to the "rebel front-end". That would be cool. It seems that kind of thing would be unshut-downable and with enough seeders, unstoppable and complete.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoWhy not make a free software replacement for the mobile app instead? Surely there's no way to block that.
- sodality2 5y agohttps://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/ https://github.com/austinhuang0131/barinsta/ is one such alternative client
- mackrevinack 5y agothat seems to be fairly unreliable as well. some days it works, most days it doesn't
- sodality2 5y agoWorks consistently every time for me, it relies on the web version so if the web version is working, it works (and if the app doesn't work it is because the web version is down).