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farside

A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services

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What it is

A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-05-24 15:45:09 UTC to 2025-06-22 09:14:08 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
dilDDoS·Jul 31, 2022
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 the beginning (i.e. https://farside.link/https://twitter.com/elonmusk would redirect to a random active nitter instance). Also works for medium.com, YouTube, etc.
In Libredirect – Redirect social media and websites to privacy friendly front ends
mdaniel·May 24, 2022
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 allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to distribute traffic more evenly across all instances and avoid performance bottlenecks and rate-limiting.
In Farside: A list of self-hosted instances

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