Many Instances are down, and even the working one don’t load the videos
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I’ve noticed that too… Perhaps the frontend part of the website needs to be rethought due to the rapidly evolving nature of the social media frontend scene
@jonah Can you also confirm ProxTox not working ?
I agree with @exaCORE , we should update the frontends section with
- Making the Youtube section clearer with
Explaining there is two main “protocols” used to fetch videos : Invidious and Piped. We could also mention that you can self-host Invidious pretty easily.
Then, we can mention the apps with each protocol, this would be clearer.
- Mentionning the service that DON’T have private frontend : Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Then we could point to alternatives (Mastodon) or harm minimisation (using Instagram PWA, not giving real email, etc)
We also should have a section about Reddit highlighting that old.reddit.com can be used anonymously (no JS/login). This is better than people using other frontends.
I can work on it if there is interest
i don’t see how old reddit is “better” than RedLib. redlib still hides your traffic by letting you blend in with other people who use the instance
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In my view “old reddit” is better because it doesn’t require an extension of trust. 3rd party Frontends exist for various reasons, and using a frontend for a popular service may be reasonble if it provided a sizable benefit to user privacy. However if the popular service (in this case Reddit) have a frontend available to users which is privacy preserving enough to overcome the trust required to use a 3rd party front ent; then I see little to no reason use said 3rd party front end.
P.S.
I have not used Redlib before, so I cannot comment on it specifically. This is just how old reddit fits into my personal threat assessment.
It seems like it’s fixed now.
Have you tried StickTock?