You’re right. I was calling it a private frontend when referring to it beforehand, and the repo description states it, but I looked at other projects and they used the phrase “alternative”, so I switched to it, since that’s the common term.

For now it doesn’t have personal feed functionality, but if a lot of people want that I may be able to implement it similarly to how CloudTube does. As in, generate a secret, store it in a cookie, and from there save user data. For now though, I want to prioritize RSS subscriptions.

Unfortunately no :(, and it’s hard there’ll be one soon. Facebook is much more closed off than Instagram or Threads. They really beg for you to have an account, and if someone were to start an alternative frontend which uses burner accounts, they would get blocked immediately AND lose in court, since that bleeds into computer fraud and abuse laws, similar to how Barinsta got taken down.

I think you’re much better off getting an account with an aliased email address and using a plugin like Facebook Container to access those groups. Add a good proxy/VPN to this, and it’ll be virtually impossible to link it back to anything else you do online. That’s what I’ve done, since I use Facebook Marketplace to buy things from time to time, and it has worked well, with me only getting suggestions from Facebook pages I’ve already visited within that account, and not from any other website I visit outside of it.

However, with Mastodon you have to deal with Meta collecting data from your profile, including any relations such as likes and follows. Furthermore, not all accounts from Threads have Fediverse integration enabled, and those who do are limited to the US, Canada, and Japan. This is more anonymous and functional than that. I also plan to add RSS support soon, to have an equivalent to following someone.

The primary use case is seeing content from the platform in a privacy-respecting way. As in, no Facebook trackers, no heavy JavaScript, plain HTML and CSS. For example, you can use it if someone sends you a post in Threads.

It’s not. This essentially proxies content from Threads. These kinds of websites are generally nicknamed alternative frontends. It’s basically the equivalent of Invidious, Bibliogram, or Libreddit (RIP), but for Threads.

Ok, but what does this mean honestly? I’m sharing libre software you can selfhost. This is within topic.