Social media sucks. But sometimes you have to click their links becuase someone you know sent one. That's what alternative frontends are for, they let you temporarily visit social media content without being inundated with ads, pop-ups, and pleas to create an account. What also sucks is that the availability of instances is not always consistent, and some frontends may even cease being developed (especially with social media APIs slowly getting more and more limited).
https://farside.link makes dealing with this a whole lot easier, letting you know of available instances from many alternative frontends with redirection support.
The webpage #
Visiting the URL itself will show a list of available frontends and instances. You can click on the frontend name and be redirected to a random instance or you can click on the one you'd like to visit.
Redirection #
Visiting https://farside.link/<frontend> will automatically redirect you to a random instance of the frontend you want.
https://farside.link/wikiless
Visiting https://farside.link/<frontend>/<path> will automatically redirect you to the content you want to see on a random instance.
https://farside.link/wikiless/wiki/linux?lang=en
That's it! The simple nature makes it easy to integrate in scripts and other forms of automation.
