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Yotter allows you to follow and gather all the content from your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts in a *beautiful* feed so you can stay up to date without compromising your privacy at all. Yotter is written with Python and Flask and uses Semantic-UI as its CSS framework.
Yotter is possible thanks to several open-source projects that are listed on the [Powered by](#powered-by) section. Make sure to check out those awesome projects!
At first I started working on this project as a solution for following Twitter accounts (a thing that can't be done with Nitter) and getting a Twitter-like feed. Weeks later the leader of Invidious, Omar Roth, announced that he was stepping away from the project. As an Invidious active user, this made me think that a new alternative was needed for the community and also an alternative with an easier language for most people (as Invidious is written in Crystal). So I started developing a 'written-in-python Invidious alternative' and it went quite well.
I hope that this project can prosperate, gain contributors, new instances and create a good community around it.
Yotter cares about your privacy, and for this it will never make any connection to Twitter or Youtube on the client. Every request is proxied through the Yotter server; video streaming, photos, data gathering, scrapping, etc.
The Yotter server connects to Google (Youtube) and Nitter in order to gather all the necessary data. Then it serves it (proxyed through itself) to the client. This means that as a client, you will never connect to Google - the Yotter server will do it for you. So if you want to set up a Yotter server for privacy reasons I recommend you to set it up on a remote VPS so you don't share your IP with Google or use a VPN on the server.
If you don't mind exposing your IP making requests to Google then you can set it up wherever you want. Even with this method you will **avoid all trackers, ads, heavy-loaded pages, etc**. - Even with this method, you can stay safe if you use a VPN to hide your IP.
Only the hash of your password is stored on the database. Also, no personal information of any kind is required nor kept, if a hacker gets access to the database the only thing they could do would be to follow/unfollow some accounts. So there's no motivation in 'hacking' Yotter.
##### IMPORTANT: Connections to googlevideo will be made to stream the videos. It is recommended to use a VPS server or a VPN to preserve your privacy. This version is intended for a remote server.
> Now you are inside of the virtual environment for python. All instructions wiht [env] indicate that must be done inside the env if you decided to create one. From now on, you will always need to start the application from within the virtual env.
> You can optionally use `flask run --host 0.0.0.0` so you can use Yotter from other devices from the same network using the host device's IP address and port. ¡Test it from a smartphone!
**IMPORTANT: Before updating to newer versions, always export your data on `Settings>Export Data`. A major version update could have changes on the whole database and you may be forced to remove and reset the database (only when running locally)!**
> If you experience any error in this step, it might be that there were big changes on the database structure. You can solve it by exporting your data, then deleting and resetting the database. Run `rm -rf app.db migrations` and then `flask db init`. Then run step 5 normally.
Funding will be used 100% for opening and mantaining an online public instance of Yotter, this will be hosted on Netcup and will (at first) be the *VPS 500 G8*. I mention all of this in case you want to check the prices.
