From 6727c3087307c00f39f7f618f7fb1a42326595573a57d775c2da2f7ae91a6492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Initial commit --- content/post/social-media-alternatives.md | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/social-media-alternatives.md (limited to 'content/post/social-media-alternatives.md') diff --git a/content/post/social-media-alternatives.md b/content/post/social-media-alternatives.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e88c733 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/social-media-alternatives.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "Social Media Alternatives" +date: 2020-12-20T00:00:00 +draft: false +--- +You don't want to miss out on social media, but you also don't want to deal with tracking scripts, ads and other nonsense that comes along with using proprietary walled garden platforms. Luckily there are publicly available privacy-respecting alternative front-ends for these popular social media sites: + +* Instagram - Bibliogram[1] (source[2]) +* Reddit - Teddit[3] (source[4]) +* Twitter - Nitter[5] (source[6]) +* Youtube - Invidious[7] (source[8]) + +There is also an Android app in F-droid[9] called UntrackMe[10] which redirects Youtube, Twitter and Instagram links to their free alternatives. Reddit support was just added 2 weeks ago. + +I recommend exclusively using the free alternative links when using a web browser. It's also best if you send others the alternative links when sharing content. The alternatives don't always support all the features of the official website. + +As a final note, Goolag[11] has been known to block Invidious instances since they drive privacy-conscious users away from youtube.com. In general social media giants tend not to be very friendly to alternatives because they want you using their official website. So don't be surprised if the alternatives suddenly break. There are always free software tools such as youtube-dl[12] you can use to avoid the proprietary walled gardens until project maintainers get the alternatives back up and running. + + +Link(s): +[1: https://bibliogram.art/](https://bibliogram.art/) +[2: https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/](https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/) +[3: https://teddit.net/](https://teddit.net/) +[4: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit](https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit) +[5: https://nitter.net/](https://nitter.net/) +[6: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter) +[7: https://invidio.us/](https://invidio.us/) +[8: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious) +[9: https://www.f-droid.org](https://www.f-droid.org) +[10: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/](https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/) +[11: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goolag](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goolag) +[12: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/) -- cgit v1.2.3