Kiwifarms Nitter/Bibliogram/Invidious Instances - Better privacy on site. Easier to archive.

[Μusk]

For those of you unaware of what exactly each of these is:

Invidious is an alternative front end to Youtube. It does not contain javascript, ads, and is not reliant on Youtube APIs. It has embedding support.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCK90I38DPxENmbe25PgXJrA (Kiwifarms Archive)


Bibliogram is an alternative front end for Instagram. Does not require javascript nor an account. Images can be saved with a simple right click. Pages do not unload as they are scrolled.

bibliogram: An alternative front-end for Instagram.

https://bg.endl.site/u/papajohns |


Nitter is an alternative Twitter front-end. Images can be opened in a separate tab with a single click and saved with a right click. You can look at an accounts media posts without needing an account.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

https://nitter.net/Job4_2

Each of these is FOSS. None require Javascript to function (But they do provide additional features if you choose to turn it on)
The Nitter and Bibliogram instances seem like they'd be useful for archiving as both Twitter and Instagram insist on forcing you to turn on Javascript and make saving images as difficult as possible. Instagram in particular forces you to make an account to open posts and scroll for longer than three seconds. Nitter allows you to search for media from any account (A feature requiring an account on Twitter), and Bibliogram lets you easily save images with a right click instead of having to inspect element your way to a direct link or having to use an add-on.
Invidious would allow Kiwi's to watch videos on the site without needing to enable fuckloads of Google javascript that follows you across the internet. It can also serve as a proxy to prevent Google from seeing Kiwi's IP addresses.



If @Null decided to include these, the subdomains might look like this:
invidious.kiwifarms.net
bibliogram.kiwifarms.net or bg.kiwifarms.net
nitter.kiwifarms.net

 

[Sicklick]

Based. 8chan used to require people to use Invidious for embedding YT videos. Just shows you how much work the small, fringe group of people getting kicked off the internet with some technical skills can do.

 

[The Real SVP]

The Privacy Redirect web extension will automatically redirect all requests to the original sites to instances of your choice. I have been using, and loving, the Firefox version for a couple of months now. It can even redirect embeds.

 

[Null]

Do they do any automated archiving?

 

[The Real SVP]

I don't know if they have an archive function, but their output would be much easier to archive than the original pages.

 

[Μusk]

Do they do any automated archiving?

I could not find anything looking through their github/sourcehut pages. I have no idea how difficult it would be to build archiving functionality into the source code, either.
One thing of note is that invidious allows you to download videos directly with a link in your quality of choice. Unfortunately, you cannot use this to download an entire channel, but for individual videos, it would mean more accessibility instead of only one or two people in a thread using youtube-dl in a terminal.

Do agree with @The Real SVP though, archiving images would be many times easier.

 

[Null]

The YouTube mirror is being stubborn but I've now mastered Docker and got the Instagram one working.

https://ig.tinf.io/

Once I get Twitter up I will start wordfiltering.

 

[Μusk]

The YouTube mirror is being stubborn but I've now mastered Docker and got the Instagram one working.

https://ig.tinf.io/

Once I get Twitter up I will start wordfiltering.

I should mention that you can disable proxies, so if it ends up using too much bandwidth it will just link the media directly at googlevideo.com or twimg.com. Unless users have these completely blocked, it should work without Javascript. This will reveal IPs though, and with Google I know they'll use it.

 

[Null]

https://twitter.com/Job4_2/status/1314233268481544192

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGCkjKNHy_Y/

 

[The Real SVP]

Automatically redirecting all links from the farms feels a bit harsh. Especially since it would break the links when the proxies are down. And it would also make sharing links found here difficult.

 

[Twinkie]

Per the sitewide announcement, how does this relate to "privacy"? Are you referring to the requirement of registering an account with IG etc. or is there some other privacy concern

 

[Null]

Per the sitewide announcement, how does this relate to "privacy"? Are you referring to the requirement of registering an account with IG etc. or is there some other privacy concern

Twitter and Instagram use trackers and can see if you come from kiwifarms.net if you don't block referrers, which most people don't since it breaks sites.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

@Muskrat This is an excellent find, you're truly doing God's work.

I'm a little bit confused on how to use these (sorry for being a noob) Is there anything I'm supposed to install, or do I just plug the url info in manually to the front-end tools?

 

[Μusk]

@Muskrat This is an excellent find, you're truly doing God's work.

I'm a little bit confused on how to use these. Is there anything I'm supposed to install, or do I just plug the url info in manually to the front-end tools?

Its a simple replacement.

youtube com -> invidious.snopyta.org
twitter com -> tw.tinf.io | nitter.net
instagram com -> ig.tinf.io | bibliogram.snopyta.org

You'd turn then https://twitter com/Job4_2/status/1314233268481544192 into https://tw.tinf.io/Job4_2/status/1314233268481544192

 

[Coffee Shits]

This is great news. Always happy to see more web frontends that don't require JavaScript by default.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Isn't one of the advantages of (admittedly manually) having to archive via archive.friends is that it is NOT single source (so people can't claim that Null modified the receipts)?

 

[Null]

Isn't one of the advantages of (admittedly manually) having to archive via archive.friends is that it is NOT single source (so people can't claim that Null modified the receipts)?

Unfortunately, the owner of the archive sites is a retard and he has to be replaced.

 

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Isn't one of the advantages of (admittedly manually) having to archive via archive.friends is that it is NOT single source (so people can't claim that Null modified the receipts)?

In general, yes, but we aren't talking about political stuff- we're talking about lolcows.

 

[General Disarray]

I made rarely-used IG and Twitter accounts just for access to cows, is using Brave sufficient? I thought it blocked trackers, but I am tech illiterate so it would be nice to have confirmation.

 

[Govt. Shitposting Machine]

This contributes absolutely nothing important but I made a Kiwifarms theme for the Nitter instance so it looks cool, Null-senpai please use it

Spoiler: :)

body {
    --bg_color: #2D3238;
    --fg_color: #FFFFFF;
    --fg_faded: #F8F8F2CF;
    --fg_dark: var(--accent);
    --fg_nav: var(--accent);

    --bg_panel: #212428;
    --bg_elements: #383C42;
    --bg_overlays: var(--bg_panel);
    --bg_hover: var(--bg_elements);

    --grey: #6BA65E;
    --dark_grey: #212428;
    --darker_grey: var(--dark_grey);
    --darkest_grey: var(--dark_grey);
    --border_grey: var(--dark_grey);

    --accent: var(--grey);;
    --accent_light: #8CCF7D;
    --accent_dark: #6FA065;
    --accent_border: var(--accent_dark);

    --play_button: var(--accent);
    --play_button_hover: var(--accent_light);

    --more_replies_dots: #7F8DA0;
    --error_red: #420A05;

    --verified_blue: #1DA1F2;
    --icon_text: var(--fg_color);

    --tab: var(--accent);
    --tab_selected: #8CCF7D;

    --profile_stat: var(--fg_color);
}