I appreciate the offer! I have localization features in my pipeline. I’ll let you know
Making the fediverse accessible to all with Quiblr!
I appreciate the offer! I have localization features in my pipeline. I’ll let you know
Ideally! I’m working to make it scalable to integrate as many fediverse platforms as I can. I’d love to include Piefed
That is the long term vision. This has been just a passion project that I work on the side. But keeping it all react native has made it easier for me to manage 1 app for web, iOS, and Android.
I didn’t want to rush out a native version though. I want it to really utilize native functionality
Recommendations are entirely, 100% on your device. There is no association between your account and the recs. So there is no transfer of data to or from your account. You can log in with your current Lemmy profile and the recs will work all the same!
The benefit of logging in is that you have more ways to interact on lemmy (so your recommendations will be more tailored)
I appreciate all the kind words! You are correct that it is a frontend with recommendation engine built in. And the speed likely comes from being a progressive web app.
There are tradeoffs, but it definitely makes thinks “snappier” :)
I pushed an update to Quiblr. I added the instance detail to the Communities page. Additionally, the vertical 3 dot ellipses on each post has an option called Post Detail >> I added the original post url here
Let me know if you have any additional feedback!
That is an effect of the dynamic sizing (adjusting the style for different screen dimensions) + it may be because the items are in a flatlist. I will add a dynamic image size setting option tonight to allow users to show the full image ratio rather than a standardized image size.
Edit: dynamic image size setting is now live
I use Kofi for donations (button in the top bar). I build and pay for everything myself so support is appreciated!
Let me know if you have any feedback!
I see what you mean. To clarify, Quiblr as a platform is also 100% private. It doesn’t even use Google Analytics. The only data that I collect is anything submitted via the Feedback form + Umami for analytics .
No. Posts are not downloaded and Quiblr is purely a frontend (you can choose which instance you want to use). The algorithm basically crafts the relevant API calls to populate the For You feed with content that matches your usage preferences. Those preferences and metadata are all stored on your device
I appreciate the kind words. And yes, I included a mechanism to constantly refresh and clean up recommendations so that it doesn’t use too much memory
Quiblr is purely a frontend. It creates a standardized experience across Instances (including the feed personalization). Im not super familiar with Kbin. If it uses the same API as Lemmy then it should work.
Long-term, I’d love to integrate more and more fediverse platforms into Quiblr
I added an overview under Settings >> For You >> learn more
To go into a bit more detail:
It took me a while to craft the solution to make sure it was both effective + private. I was originally inspired by Canopy. They built a news aggregator with private & personalized posts a few years back and the idea sat in my head.
My approach was to do thorough research on the different signals used by big tech to make their recommendation engines, and just build ones that 1.) were possible given fediverse API limitations and 2.) private. I had to craft some novel approaches to make it work but I’m pretty happy with the outcome!
One of the biggest differences between the “big tech” approach and Quiblr’s is that most big tech does not keep data simply on your device. They store it in datacenters to build large social-webs to essentially cluster users (and push more relevant ads).
But I was able utilize many of the other signals used by big tech (e.g. communities you engage with, metadata of content you read, dwell time, post/comment/vote activity) and I designed it to work offline with no servers.
I try to build solutions that can be the best of both worlds! The functionality that users expect + prioiritizing privacy
Gotcha. That should be an easy addition. I’ll see if I can push an update tonight!
Edit: I noted this in a separate comment, but I added the instance info to the communities page + the original post url to the Post Details page (via the 3 dot ellipses)
Yup, 100% completely local to your device alone
All front-end.
And thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate what you mean by “can’t find the real URL of anything”?
I’ll definitely let you know. Thank you!