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:
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!
Guess we’ll see these added to LibRedirect soon.
I’ll be suggesting it to them for sure!
Great work! This will be so useful!
Let’s just hope ⓜⓔⓣⓐ don’t completely kill this project, like they did with Bibliogram.
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.
