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submitted 4 months ago by to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
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[–] 90 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I love webcomics. Makes me sad to come across a good webcomic that only publishes on Instagram and had no RSS feed. It is upsettingly common.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    worse is when they only post on twitter

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I wouldn't consider that worse. At least if they post on twitter I can get an RSS feed via xcancel or other alternative frontends. So far I haven't found a good/consistent workaround for artists who exclusively post on Instagram or Tiktok.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Instagram has imginn.com

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    sadly it doesn't support RSS feeds, so you have to remember to check the accounts manually.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    And it is ad based , so why watch ads to enjoy comics?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I use ad blockers on all my devices, so I haven't seen a single ad when opening the website.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    are you familiar with RSS Bridge? it adds a bunch of workarounds to create RSS feeds for websites that don't support one. there's unfortunately no working Instagram bridge as far as I know, but it works for TikTok. there used to be a few proxy websites like OffTiktok that opened TikTok posts (and you could set them up to redirect automatically via LibRedirect), but it looks like there are no more, so for the few people that I want to follow there and who don't post their videos anywhere else, I just use yt-dlp to download the videos and watch them locally. a bit of a pain, I know.

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    • [+] 42 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    God tiktok is so annoying. Why can't I just view this one video and move on

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    If I really want to view it, I download the video with yt-dlp.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Same. I host a very simple frontend app on my server with yt-dlp backend. Copy-paste URL and that's it. Don't even have to download to my phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Whats the setup? Do you have a github or codeberg repo?

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    • [–] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Im in this picture and send it to the only 2 people I know who'd care

    They didn't

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    • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I couldn't access info on an earthquake I just experienced bc the govt only posted on Instagram and I didnt want to login.

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    • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I just throw instagram into https://fastdl.app/ and facebook into https://fdown.net/

    Tiktok generally lets you use the webclient without logging in enough to get a single link to work.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I didnt know that. Good i hate the app

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Try Nora

    From f-droid:

    SNS browser. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, X and more in a single app.

    Features

    • Multiple accounts with separate cookie storage

    • Blocklist (EasyList and EasyPrivacy)

    • Download image

    • Download fb/ig reel

    • Usage limits

    • Select text

    • Zoom

    • Remove tracking url query params

    Supported SNS

    • Bluesky

    • Facebook

    • Instagram

    • LinkedIn

    • Reddit

    • Threads

    • TikTok

    • Tumblr

    • VK

    • X (Twitter)

    How it works

    • Wrap the SNS websites in Android webview

    • Inject code to block ads

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    • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Same with Facebook links. I am not clicking that. Don't care what "funniest shit I ever seen" is on there. FB is trash.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I’ve never downloaded either. Am I missing anything?

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    If it's good enough it'll reach escape velocity

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    [–] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah ... I begrudgingly have WhatsApp because everyone else uses it. I've already opted out of FB Marketplace which everyone around my area uses apparently.

    I keep getting links to Instagram or Tiktok and I have to find the "continue to web" link just to know what my friends are showing me.

    I also don't know why AliExpress and Temu want me to install their apps. There's like no way I'm going to install an app for that ...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    When people send me tiktok videos i just answer "remember that i don't have tiktok so i can't see it?" And after a while, they download it for me

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    What do you mean they download it for you?

    It's not a matter of lazyness, there are quite a few work rounds described even under this post. It's a matter of principle. The harder companies make it to watch it's content without a user, the less I'm going to use it. Not jump through hoops to still watch it's content. Social media has become a cancer and should be avoided like the disease it is. It should be treated with utter contempt.

    Remain strong to your stance. All my friends know theres no point to send any videos as most no longer work without an app and are complete eyesore to watch in browser mode and i absolutely refuse to defile my phone with tiktok. So if they actually want to show me a good video, they have to physically come to me and show it from their phone. That kinda guarantees that the video is good enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    What do you mean they download it for you?

    They download the video using the shitty app and send it to me, what else i should mean?

    It's not a matter of lazyness

    Dom't put words in my mouth, thank you

    there are quite a few work rounds described even under this post. It's a matter of principle. The harder companies make it to watch it's content without a user, the less I'm going to use it. Not jump through hoops to still watch it's content. Social media has become a cancer and should be avoided like the disease it is. It should be treated with utter contempt.

    That's why i tell them to dowload the video for me and send in chat instead of sending of expecting me to use tiktok

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Seal is a good workaround app for seeing videos behind links you don't want to open. Sometimes I get Instagram or tiktok links I can't open, so I just paste the video link into the downloader, watch it once, and then discard it.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Also Pintrest in search results.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Same

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    yt-dlp can download videos from tiktok and instagram. That's what I use when I have to

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    mpv also uses yt-dlp whenever installed, although it is referred to in the docs as youtube-dl for historical reasons. You can specify stuff with --ytdl-format (yt-dlp -f equivalent) and --ytdl-raw-options (=thing=thing,anotherthing=anotherthing). Pop in a --ytdl-format=251 with a YouTube playlist and you get a nice little music player.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Even if you can see my jailbait titays? 🥭 🤱

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There are better places for that with wider selection.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, yeah? 🍈

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Is it all that funny though?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Never. It is always the stupidest shit you've ever seen, but never the funniest. Last night at work, guy stands there holding his phone at me for 2+ minutes of a fat guy eating a burger and describing it. All I could think of was how much my respect for him was going down the more I watched.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Instagram used to be really good.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Use ytdlnis to download on you phone if needed. Work for sharing with people who don't have an account.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.deniscerri.ytdl

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Dan vs The Algorithm would be a pretty good episode concept.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Whenever someone sends one of those cursed tiktok links, I just run yt-dlp on it.

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