[ipaddr]

I was hoping this was the opposite of a creators platform - a social media users platform. Download all social media to one place (stories/posts) where you can view on your own schedule.

Is there anything like that out there?

[latchkey]

Someone just posted this: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/

[foobar_______]

Same. I was hoping for this. As much as social media frustrates me, the content can be great at times. I want an aggregation tool where I have strict control on the output. Give me the content minus the addictive never ending scroll with inflammatory posts. Basically, I want a benevolent curation of media on my terms.

[itherseed]

I want the same. The problem is that this kind of tool is outside the T&C of the platforms, and if they catch you using it, you would probably be banned or suspended. There will be always a small risk of that.

[xnx]

Big upvote for this. I want an "agent" (overused term) to scroll through all the user-hostile feeds and present what I actually want to see in a calm, ad-free, manner.

Tools like instaloader are a start, but screen scraping might be the best bet to avoid detection/banning.

[jareklupinski]

RSS can get you there, lots of clients but you have to teach your friends how to make their own websites and set up a feed

made me think of Pidgin, the chat client that could talk to any chat server

[vlachen]

I'm taking the submission as: if you've got an idea, here's some methods to work build something.

I have a few ideas if my own, perhaps yours is something that could be created.

[jezzamon]

Platforms really don't want you to build that. But depends on what platforms your talking about, open ones like bsky and mastodon could allow for something like that

[echelon]

You can build one in three weeks with Claude. I'm not joking - you'll have energy for side projects you never had before, and you'll finish them.