Intersting web projects

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/471042

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Just wondering: is there a service where you can replace the domain of a YouTube URL with, that will automatically redirect you to a random, well-running Invidious or Piped instance? That way we automatically spread out the load to more instances.

Same question for other Alternative Client projects like Nitter for Twitter, Teddit & Libreddit for Reddit, ScribeRip for Medium, etc?

Example: I want to be able to take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and turn it into something like https://altclient.to/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and then have that URL redirect to any one of the popular Invidious or Piped clients, like https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ or https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ​

I'm aware of LibRedirect, but it's a browser extension for a single user. I want to be able to post a URL, say on Lemmy, and have it auto-redirect to a random instance for everyone that clicks in it. My main goal is to help balance out the load on all the instances so the most popular one isn't just swamped with requests while all the others are basically never used.

If there isn't, I might just build it. Shouldn't be too hard.

The 10 KB Club is a curated collection of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB compressed size.

This is a service I created to consume RSS feeds via email. This has been my preferred way to consume RSS for a while but I never found a service that I was really happy with and no self-hosted tool easy enough to manage.

So I created FeedMail mostly for myself but decided to share with others. I would appreciate feedback and any questions you have.

I immediately went to their Patreon to back despite having very little interest in creating this kind of content myself. If anyone knows of a resource to keep abreast of new things people are making with it, I'm all ears!

via nathalie lawhead's talk on web art which perfectly sums up why we should find stuff like this exciting

It's an art class, let's get that out of the way up top: maybe not for everyone. And it's teaching dead-basic coding skills in its projects, so they're not necessarily of interest. But that syllabus--I'm going to be spending a while with it.

Sometimes I feel a flicker of jealousy for the Really Smart People who got to take classes like this, ponder over material like this, discuss with other Really Smart People... But there are two points that console me: first, that I don't have Yale MFA debt behind me, and second, that if I can nurture the habits I need to pursue such studies as an autodidact, I have an increasing amount of life experience to bring to bear on the material.

Hmm. Lacks social grounding, doesn't it? But I'm not sure where would be appropriate to discuss the readings, so I'll leave that aside for now...

Most people interested in PWAs have been looking forward to desktop support, but Mozilla is removing the prototype feature for it and has no plans for any other desktop PWA features. I want to use Firefox, but Mozilla keeps doing the exact opposite of what I want.

I don't know why, but I have this feeling that these kinds of communities are the only good future of the web. That isn't to say quirky and Linux-based -- but intentional, social, donation-based, with a hodgepodge of shared amenities.

Using Hypothesis, we can annotate on any sentences in any web pages and PDF files.

Email something to be burned in a dumpster fire