What’s the alternative closest to the completeness of Instander at the moment? I have been using the last version of Instander still supporting v7a which is v16.0 for many years now and as it seems there is a chance it will finally stop working soon.
As non insta user who’s being forced to dip my toes in for the purpose of community organizing: what are these and how do I use them?
Insta really is the worst platform to interact with when you don’t have an account. Sometimes food places or music artists have insta only and rarely do I find what I need in these cases.
There are also nitter-like services for Instagram. I have a forwarder extension in my web browser set to redirect IG links to https://imginn.com/. I can’t say how advanced it is because my use case is opening memes from a single person.
shitflare >:(
You could try https://kittygram.irelephant.net/
I had no luck using it…Well, maybe it’s good I remain off Instashit
Oh that’s not a good sign. Try https://kittygr.am/ instead
Could you try a non private/age-gated account?
Is this a thing? O have no idea…it’s been years since I don’t use instg …I just searched my friend
I work the other way. If I need or want it, but it’s on <insert (physically, mentally, financially, environmentally, or privacy-wise) harmful corporation here>, I don’t need or want it. There’s always an alternative elsewhere.
Just out of curiosity: what should PixelFed have for you to change 100% from Instagram?
Users.
You can contribute to that.
My favourite Band for example. They only use Instagram and Facebook. It’s infuriating. I just log in via browser every few months.
The thing is that you don’t need to close you FB/Insta/X/whatever account to open one in any Fediverse service, but they don’t get that.
Make a page for them, auto paste their content, then tell them they have a following on pixelfed, and hand them the account.
Is their one app, for pixelfed, Lemmy and mastadon, that respects your privacy? Or is 3 separate apps better?
FediLab is an explicitly general Fediverse app, though it’s not designed for lemmy. There’s also plenty of native cross-fedi support, as all activities are translated into ActivityPub events.
Frankly I’d recommend a separate app for Lemmy-likes and Mastodon-likes. The difference between following communities and following accounts seems to result in a lot of jank, if crammed into one app.
I don’t know any combined app 🤷♂️
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Is there one for Android?
It’s a web front-end, so if you host it somewhere, you can access it over your mobile browser. Maybe you can even host it on your phone via Termux, but I’m not sure.
I’d say for phones it’s not ideal either way though.
I’ve been using MyInsta. Even it is outdated though as the dev is going through his Masters iirc. Otherwise there’s a few more out there but they seem less trustworthy imo.
This is what I’ve been using, too, for the same reason. It works for me, buut I don’t really do much other than view (and maybe comment on) posts from local community groups and message people occasionally. Instagram probably has all kinds of features I’m not even aware of, lol.
I’ve been using an app called Nora from F-Droid for a few months now. The UI is horrible, but it works.
The UI is horrible, but it works.
I thought that was a requirement for F-Droid apps /s
There are plenty of awesome apps with amazing UI in F-Droid, and the opposite is also true. What does that remind me of? Oh, yeah, the play store.
Personally, I use NativeAlpha (PWA wrapper) and tweak the permissions until it just barely works for my needs.
My favorite tip is to set the PWA default address to
instagram.com/?variant=following– which is JUST the accounts you follow with no recommended content / doom scrolling fuel.So I was looking into this and istander won’t actually be shutdown. Just the version of Instagram that the API pulls from. It’s still going to work just fine.
Alternatively if it does shutdown. Theirs https://myinsta.app/
I use either MyInsta and InstaPrime. Mostly been using the latter more though.
InstaPrime looks promising. Imma try it for a month and see how it copes. Thanks for the keyword 👍
InstaFel?
Why use it when official Revanced patches exist?
Don’t you need to be rooted for those patches?
No you don’t
Might you please share more info? Thanks
