Over the last few days I #vibecoded an app I wanted to have for some time and I couldn’t find one. A privacy-focused Android app that rewrites social media links into self-hosted alternatives.

goose and I are proud to announce Linkahest - the Alkahest (the universal solvent of alchemy) for links to certain platforms. To dissolve the nonsense, basically.

Shared links to X, YouTube and Reddit either annoy us with dark patterns, EU cookie nonsense, force us to login before seeing the content or restrict posted contents from being easily copied - all that while spying on our every interaction while using their platforms.

Share links from these platforms via the Android share sheet to Linkahest and you're ready to go to share it to nostr or wherever you hang around where people care about privacy. Share, post and read content without ads, tracking or forced logins - like it’s supposed to be. Comes with support for custom instances.

Hope this is useful for someone. Appreciate any feedback, feature requests or even contributions. No need to register at Codeberg, just drop it here. I’ll probably mirror to Github at some point.

Code: https://codeberg.org/hermeticvm/linkahest

Pre-release apk: https://codeberg.org/hermeticvm/linkahest/releases

Alkahest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkahest

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