How to use Instagram privately? (lemmy.ml)

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Follow accounts with/out account. Assume I have a list of account URLs in bookmark folder How to convert it to RSS and have bookmarks and RSS in Sync.
Accounts can change username, need to use the API to convert usernames to some id and back to usernames.
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[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

https://rss-bridge.org/ does a somewhat acceptable job at it if you look from the perspective of someone who used the app before, or an outstanding job if you come from the perspective of someone who never had an account and clicked links to instagram only to see giant popups and errors.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026

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