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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 23:51:55 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   As twitit.gq is (temporarily?) down in the DNS of the network I'm on I started looking at alternatives.
   
   github.com/benbusby/farside is a general-purpose redirector that supports not only nitter, but also invidious, libreddit etc.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 23:54:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     You have a tweet to link to? Replace twitter.com with farside.link/nitter and get e.g. farside.link/nitter/clacke/sta… which will take you directly to that tweet on some public nitter instance that is currently responding.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 23:55:22 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     You have some youtube video to link to? Replace youtube.com or youtu.be with farside.link/invidious, e.g. farside.link/invidious/watch?v… and it'll take you to that video on a working Invidious instance.
     
     That's great! twitit.gq solved this for nitter, but for e.g. invidious there's otherwise only redirect.invidious.io/ and it doesn't bring you directly to an instance, it provides a page of links to instances for you to click.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 23:57:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     If you go to plain farside.link/ you can see a list of which services it supports and which instances are currently redirected to for that service.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 00:03:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I will go to my Privacy Redirect browser plugin preferences right now and put farside in all the server instance references.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 01:31:23 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Nope. Privacy Redirect addon doesn't support service links with a subdirectory, it goes to the root of the host. Time to file an issue.
   • lefarfadet (lefarfadet@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:30:43 UTC lefarfadet

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     @clacke
     I havent played with it for a while, but could you redirect this with pi-hole maybe ?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:30:43 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • lefarfadet
     @lefarfadet Not on my phone in an arbitrary location.
   • Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 15:08:09 UTC Thomas

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     @clacke oh nice! I'd stopped linking to invidious because the instances were always broken, which makes the links not very useful

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 15:09:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • jay 🌺
     @j12i Yeah sadly it didn't work.
     
     If you enter e.g. https://farside.link/invidious into Privacy Redirect preferences, it stores only https://farside.link.
   • jay 🌺 (j12i@weirder.earth)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 15:09:29 UTC jay 🌺

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     @clacke Thanks. I'm using Privacy Redirect too.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 04:16:26 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Deadly Headshot
     @dheadshot Yes, but what do you put in the list of instances to redirect to?
     
     A fixed list of instances that may or may not be up (the default)? One instance that you have observed to be reliable (this is what I was doing before)? Or a redirect service that brings you to an instance that is working right now (this is what twitit.gq does)?
   • Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 04:16:27 UTC Deadly Headshot

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     @clacke I just use the Privacy Redirect Firefox extension...

   • jay 🌺 (j12i@weirder.earth)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 08:08:50 UTC jay 🌺

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     @clacke I meant thanks for reporting it. :)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 08:14:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • jay 🌺
     @j12i I didn't yet, feel free to beat me to it 😉