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A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2022-05-24 · latest 2025-06-22

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  1. Farside extension, 847 stars: https://github.com/benbusby/farside Using venrable farside.link https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/ https://farside.link/ Why use your offering?
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    Farside: A smart redirecting gateway for various front end services
    story by i13e · 2024-05-06 · 0 comments
  3. You can run your own farside instance as well. https://github.com/benbusby/farside
  4. Haven’t used Libredirect, but there’s also https://farside.link (on GitHub: https://github.com/benbusby/farside ). Not an extension, but it redirects to an active instance for most privacy friendly front ends just by adding farside.link to…
  5. the explanatory text from https://github.com/benbusby/farside#readme is helpful: > Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-05-24 · in Farside: A list of self-hosted instances