farside/lib, 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).
Include content type header on home page 2024-03-06T16:18:28+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-03-06T16:18:28+00:00 cd840214d2aaadbce56a9b03951ae7d9190be330 Closes #158 
Closes #158
Extract remote ip from `X-Forwarded-For` 2024-01-09T16:55:55+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-01-09T16:55:55+00:00 60c318b5a37b5933fc2b5d39ea07f5a06c404a30 The remote IP returned in plug.conn is meant to be overwritten by the developer, and doesn't reflect the origin of the request based on headers. A new dependency has been added to make this change quicker to roll out. 
The remote IP returned in plug.conn is meant to be overwritten by the
developer, and doesn't reflect the origin of the request based on
headers. A new dependency has been added to make this change quicker to
roll out.
Update reddit + ig frontends, update rate limiting 2024-01-08T19:37:17+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-01-08T19:37:17+00:00 247114d32819076e6063e7777402ed5a92e5f3a2 Farside ratelimiting has been updated to return a 429 when a user exceeds 1 request/sec. This should help eliminate a lot of scraping type behavior that instance maintainers have been dealing with from Farside lately. Service changes: - Teddit removed (not maintained) - Bibliogram replaced by Proxigram - Libreddit merged with redlib 
Farside ratelimiting has been updated to return a 429 when a user
exceeds 1 request/sec. This should help eliminate a lot of scraping type
behavior that instance maintainers have been dealing with from Farside
lately.

Service changes:
- Teddit removed (not maintained)
- Bibliogram replaced by Proxigram
- Libreddit merged with redlib
Replace bibliogram w/ proxigram 2024-01-08T19:07:38+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-01-08T19:07:38+00:00 99b13b3aa6277f331e85e20cac7aed43a3c284fb Closes #149 
Closes #149
Return 429 for users exceeding 1 req/sec 2024-01-08T18:49:18+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-01-08T18:49:18+00:00 7f26ab3bbf3743e5f6924b51e08986b58641ba49 Farside has been getting used by some to rapidly scrape sites, which puts increased load and effort on maintainers of instances. Rather than funneling traffic towards the last selected instance, farside will now just return a 429 error when this behavior occurs. Closes #147 
Farside has been getting used by some to rapidly scrape sites, which
puts increased load and effort on maintainers of instances. Rather than
funneling traffic towards the last selected instance, farside will now
just return a 429 error when this behavior occurs.

Closes #147
Replace libreddit w/ redlib, remove teddit 2024-01-08T18:32:59+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2024-01-08T18:32:59+00:00 4f60a39d7f6aded5a7ccd5f003f77ed634415a90 Teddit is no longer maintained Libreddit has been forked to redlib, which seems to be actively trying to work around the changes to Reddit's API. Libreddit instances are now a mirror of redlib instances for the time being. 
Teddit is no longer maintained

Libreddit has been forked to redlib, which seems to be actively trying
to work around the changes to Reddit's API.

Libreddit instances are now a mirror of redlib instances for the time
being.
Redirect x.com links to nitter instances 2023-09-28T20:24:01+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2023-09-28T20:24:01+00:00 a843b322c9caafe1bf086a7b8475e112394ca073 Closes #136 
Closes #136
Poll nitter instances only in nightly build 2023-08-23T19:46:51+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2023-08-23T19:46:51+00:00 7e47e9536aa347d8a0ea24dfef3c034ad50d9a76 From the recent changes to twitter/X, it sounds like guest accounts are now required for nitter, which are more easily rate limited. To avoid any impact from Farside, the instances are now health checked in the nightly build using https://status.d420.de (this doesn't seem to be directly associated with the nitter maintainers, so might not be entirely future-proof). 
From the recent changes to twitter/X, it sounds like guest accounts are
now required for nitter, which are more easily rate limited. To avoid
any impact from Farside, the instances are now health checked in the
nightly build using https://status.d420.de (this doesn't seem to be
directly associated with the nitter maintainers, so might not be
entirely future-proof).
Add env var for toggling cron task on/off 2023-07-17T23:46:39+00:00 Ben Busby contact@benbusby.com 2023-07-17T23:46:39+00:00 7693a6b0633c3eee5d717662df72b62463d6f2d1 FARSIDE_CRON allows turning on/off the scheduled instance availability check that occurs every 5 minutes by setting the variable to 1 (on) or 0 (off). The default behavior is "on". 
FARSIDE_CRON allows turning on/off the scheduled instance availability
check that occurs every 5 minutes by setting the variable to 1 (on) or 0
(off). The default behavior is "on".