This release continues our work on (experimental!) federated search, using the system proposed by the Fediscovery project.
If you've got federation enabled, you can optionally sign up with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers (FASPs), which are servers that can provide things like cross-instance search, account recommendations, and other services in future. We've integrated data sharing, follow recommendations and search into this latest version.
To try it out, hook up to our experimental FASP at search.3dprint.social, then visit \follows on your instance. At that point you should be able to find content from other servers just by typing plain text into the search box. As we test this out a bit more in the real world, we'll make it more tightly integrated into the main search process.
Note: Privacy and control are #1 priorities, and so only public content that's also set as "indexable" will be shared with the FASP and made available in results. You're always in full control.
What's Changed
✨ New Features ✨
- Enable data sharing capability for FASPs by @Floppy in #4704
- Change upload button to "add content" dropdown for upload or import URL by @Floppy in #4706
- Use card view for Fediverse search results by @Floppy in #4709
- Get follow recommendations from FASP on Fediverse new follow page by @Floppy in #4711
- Show search results from FASPs on new follow page by @Floppy in #4713
🐛 Bug Fixes 🐛
🛠️ Other Improvements 🛠️
- Improved admin settings area navigation by @Floppy in #4698
- Include toot:discoverable in ActivityPub responses by @Floppy in #4699
- Don't switch locales if we're not using an HTML format by @Floppy in #4701
- Translations updates by @Floppy in #4702
- Hide search box in navbar on root page by @Floppy in #4705
- Translation update by @Floppy in #4710
- Refactor and improvement to fedi following page by @Floppy in #4712
- Translation update by @Floppy in #4715
- Translation update by @Floppy in #4716
- Only share content with FASPs if public and indexable by @Floppy in #4723
- Include search.3dprint.social as a FASP recommendation by @Floppy in #4724
Full Changelog: v0.122.1...v0.123.0