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Contents
1. [About](#about)
2. [Demo](#demo)
3. [How It Works](#how-it-works)
4. [Cloudflare](#regarding-cloudflare)
5. [Development](#development)
1. [Compiling](#compiling)
1. [Environment Variables](#environment-variables)
## About
A redirecting service for FOSS alternative frontends.
[Farside](https://farside.link) 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.
Farside also integrates smoothly with basic redirector extensions in most
browsers. For an simple example setup,
[refer to the wiki](https://github.com/benbusby/farside/wiki/Browser-Extension).
## Demo
Farside's links work with the following structure: `farside.link/