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minus-squareScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoI’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoyes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend. it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc) redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more. you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such. libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.
I’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend.
it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc)
redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more.
you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such.
libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.