I am looking for a UI (web browser or app) to use on my Android phone that lets me access instagram, but which doesn’t give me such easy access to reels and other video content. I am imagining something similar to Newpipe that uses a different UI to provide access to the same content, but which isn’t such an attention trap.

Is there a reason that instagram and facebook have such curated experiences while youtube is able to get presented so differently by third party apps?

  • Meron35English
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    11 hours ago

    Just use revanced - it has a whole bunch of patches which specifically disables reels etc, in addition to blocking ads.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      This is the one I’m using too. Now if only it had a setting to change the primary feed to “followed” or disable the suggested posts.

      Edit: the revanced patch might work. It worked for aeroinsta.

      Edit: it did not work on the unclone version and I can’t figure out how to make revanced run on the clone apk

  • gedaliyahEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    I haven’t tested Nora but it may be promising. I use AeroInsta, which is unfortunately defunct . I’ll look for alternatives when that starts to fail.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    Would be interested too, or in bridges. I primarily am only there because of a few agencies that only have Insta, and family who refuse to use anything else. I never write anything and would love a way to read directly from somewhere else