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Shoelace: Alternative frontend for Instagram's Threads (sr.ht)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello Lemmy! Yesterday I released the first version of an alternative frontend for Threads: Shoelace. It allows for fetching posts and profiles from Threads without the need of any browser-side JavaScript. It's written in Rust, and powered by the spools library, which was co-developed between me and my girlfriend. Here's a quick preview:

A screenshot of Shoelace's homepage, showing the logo on top, the title "Shoelace", the subtitle "an alternative frontend for Threads", an input bar with the tooltip "Jump to a profile...", and at the bottom three links: "hub", "donate", and "v0.1".

Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Shoelace, showing three posts: One showcasing columns on the official Threads frontend, another congratulating himself for 1.2M+ downloads in his company's new AI software, and the glimpse of a post related to the "metaverse" Post by münecat on Shoelace, announcing the release of a video essay criticizing the field of evolutionary psychology

The official public instance (at least for now) is located at https://shoelace.mint.lgbt/, if y'all wanna try it out. There's also instructions to deploy it inside the docs you can find in the README. Hope y'all enjoy it!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Guess we'll see these added to LibRedirect soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'll be suggesting it to them for sure!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Great work! This will be so useful!

Let's just hope ⓜⓔⓣⓐ don't completely kill this project, like they did with Bibliogram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm prepared to receive intimidation letters at my door! Thankfully I live in a country (Chile. Can't really hide it, since you can geolocate my server and see that indeed it's hosted there) where it wouldn't be very much valuable for [m3t4] to sue me, since they haven't signed with a law firm here from what I can see. It would be much easier for them to just try and keep their platform closed off, which would mean they kill the open aspect of the platform. It would also be a win for the Fediverse, who has not received it well. Heck, I don't like it as well.