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by araes 533 days ago
That was my immediate response. Best web design in a long time. Instant bookmark (technically, WP landing homepage links)

This and https://neuters.de/ (Reuters Plaintext) are the best developments of the last half a decade in WWW news.

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A chief difference is that the CBC's lite page is the work of the CBC, whereas Neuters, as with Nitter (its inspiration), Invididious and Piped (both YouTube front-ends), Teddit (Reddit), Bibliogram (defunct) and Proxigram (Instagram), and more[1], are alternative front-ends to services.

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Notes:

1. Libredirect has a collection of such alternatives, for YouTube Music, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, IMDb, Bilibili, Pixiv, Fandom, Imgur, Pinterest, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tekstowo, Genius, Medium, Quora, GitHub, GitLab, Stack Overflow, Reuters, Snopes, iFunny, Tenor, KnowYourMeme, Urban Dictionary, Goodreads, Wolfram Alpha, Instructables, Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, Search, Translate, Google Maps, Meet, Send Files, Paste Text, and Ultimate Guitar. See: <https://libredirect.github.io/>

Several of these are inspired: Snopes -> Suds, iFunny -> UNfunny, Tenor -> Soprnao, Urban Dictionary -> Rural Dictionary.