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Man bliver oprigtig ked af at læse historier som denne: https://
Jeg bliver ikke overrasket, blot oprigtig ked af det på folks vegne, når de har erklæret deres tillid til FB og lagt alle deres æg i FBs kurv, hvorefter FB så skidder kurven fuld, og sætter ild til den bagefter.
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Ahmen, der har stort set hver aften i den sidste uges tid på BBCs nyheder, været indslag om Harry og hans bog. Ufatteligt så hårdt det har været for den mand at være ham. Og jeg misunder ham ikke at være Royal, det må faktisk være noget lort, men kan vi ikke lige få lidt perspektiv på det.
Hele "Harry og den onde onde royale familie"-historien lyder mere og mere, som en offentlig kommentartråd på et Facebook-opslag, der burde være taget privat.
Her er f.eks. et eksempel på den gang det virkede med Facebook også (altså, Known krydsposter opslaget på Facebook, brid.gy hiver kommentarer og reaktioner fra FB-spejlingen, tilbage til dit opslag på din hjemmeside:
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Facebook lukkede nogle APIer i 2018, så FB-brid.gy gik død. Men jeg kan se, at den gode Ryan Barrett (@snarfed@indieweb.social) sidste år lavede en browserudvidelse der kan løfte opgaven igen: https://
Memorable recommendation in Vox article
This article from Vox is fairly balanced in its assessment of the Facebook/Australia kerfuffle. There are pros and cons to the way Facebook approached this. Some of the media coverage made it sound like Facebook blocked the internet, and were standing between the raw news sources, and their users.
All material was still available from their raw sources, and as one person in the article mentions:
"I would be much more comfortable if all Aussies got their news direct from the source,” he said. “I think this would be best for quality journalism and the strength of our democracy."
The fine gentleman definitely has a point. Too bad that doesn't seem to be the main message carried in most news outlets.
If anything, I think this issue might have helped illustrate the problem that arises when you treat a privately run company as a public utility, and then getting miffed when they begin to make decisions based on profit. What were people expecting would happen?
Getting my personal data out of Facebook
Rubens epic story of trying to get Facebook to comply with his GDPR request. Stil developing
Consuming Instagram differently
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I've been looking for a different way of consuming Instagram. Facebook has introduced more and more features in their neverending quest to wrestle users from Snapchat and onto Instagram, and I don't care for those. I like Instagram, the photo sharing part, not so much the TV and Stories part. The other reason is that whole privacy thing, of course. Turns out big social media players weren't quite the stewards of our personal data we were hoping for, and spending less time on actual social media websites seems like a good thing.
Except for some musicians and photographers, I don't follow brands on Instagram. I mainly follow people I know. Family, friends, and tags. Being a camera and photo enthusiast, I enjoy looking at photos taken with a variety of cameras and film, and a lot of people use Instagram to show their analogue makings.
For a while I used an app called Hermit on Android. Hermit is a wrapper that turns mobile web versions of websites into apps. It has ad blocking, and a bunch of other nice features. Using Hermit helped me get rid of ads on Instagram, and their algorithm somehow works differently on there as well. I liked the ordering better, it seemed to be more chronological. Only downside: I had to consume it on my phone. It was good, but not great.
Granary.io and Atom to the rescue
Thankfully, people much smarter than me are creating tools for consuming silo'ed social media in different ways. One such tool is Granary.
To be able to get the feed of your friends, and not the feed of your own damn self, you need to find your sessionid cookie value from Instagram. Do the following:
Edit: There's actually a much easier way to do the below, by using https://
- Open the Chrome Browser
- go to instagram.com and login with your account
- after logging in, open the developer console of your browser, and reload the page
- find the "Application" tab and click it
- in the left hand panel there's a "Cookies" item, click the chevron to the left of it to expand it
- click on the line that says https://
www.instagram.com - in the list of cookies like csrftoken, ig_cb, mid, and rur, there should also be a cookie called "sessionid"
- copy the value of sessionid
Next, open Granary.io, and click on the Instagram logo. Granary will load up this url, and then you have to fill out some fields. You need to fill in your Instagram username, select @friends from the dropdown, select "atom" as your format, and paste the cookied ID you gathered above, into the last field where it says sessionid cookie (for @friends) and hit the GET button.
When Granary has done its thing, you'll end up with a link below the form. With the cookie value removed, mine looks like this:
https://
This link holds your liberated Instagram photo feed. I plugged mine into my Feed Reader and into Aaron Parecki's Aperture and now I can read my Instagram feed on my phone using Indigenous, and on my desktop, all with no ads and no stories. Glorious!
Is anything lost?
Besides losing the ads and stories, you also lose the ability to favourite a post on Instagram, and to add comments to a post. However, I don't necessarily see this as a loss. If I want to Like a post, I can just do it on my own personal feed, and it ends up looking like this. Sure, if it's a post from a friend of mine, they won't know from their post, that I liked it. But you know how you can fix that? Write them an email. If your feed reader lets you email a post, you can email your friend saying you liked their picture.
Not being able to comment might be the biggest loss, but if you can live with that, then I think you should do it, go forth and liberate your Instagram feed.
This will definitely be the way I will consume Instagram until we've all moved over to Pixelfed.
P.S. I'm not sure how long the sessionid cookie lives for, so you might have to reconstruct the link in Granary once in a while, but that should be about it. Also, don't share that sessionid with anyone. I'm pretty sure it can be used to log into Instagram as you.