farside/go.mod, branch main Farside fork Rewrite project, add daily update of services list 2025-01-21T20:46:29+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2025-01-21T20:46:29+00:00 b5bad4defc6c75b9b969658229ce5fd2f3a46107 The project was rewritten from Elixir to Go, primarily because: - I don't write Elixir anymore and don't want to maintain a project in a language I no longer write - I already write Go for other projects, including my day job, so it's a safer bet for a project that I want to maintain long term - Go allows me to build portable executables that will make it easier for others to run farside on their own machines The Go version of Farsside also has a built in task to fetch the latest services{-full}.json file from the repo and ingest it, which makes running a farside server a lot simpler. It also automatically fetches the latest instance state from https://farside.link unless configured as a primary farside node, which will allow others to use farside without increasing traffic to all instances that are queried by farside (just to the farside node itself). 
The project was rewritten from Elixir to Go, primarily because:

- I don't write Elixir anymore and don't want to maintain a project in a
  language I no longer write
- I already write Go for other projects, including my day job, so it's
  a safer bet for a project that I want to maintain long term
- Go allows me to build portable executables that will make it easier
  for others to run farside on their own machines

The Go version of Farsside also has a built in task to fetch the latest
services{-full}.json file from the repo and ingest it, which makes
running a farside server a lot simpler.

It also automatically fetches the latest instance state from
https://farside.link unless configured as a primary farside node, which
will allow others to use farside without increasing traffic to all
instances that are queried by farside (just to the farside node itself).