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Fediverse

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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

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https://fedisearch.xyz A small project of mine, feel free to submit users and other things here.


Fediverse Search API

A simple JSON-based API for getting information on all things Fediverse.

Hosted at https://fediversewiki-api.herokuapp.com/

The fedisearch.xyz website however, I host it at my personal server.


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Contributing

To submit a search form to the API, add these variables to data/characters.json

  {
    "name": "John Doe",
    "alternate_names": "",
    "gender": "Male",
    "category": "Novelist",
    "description": "",
    "fediverse": "@[email protected]",
    "link": "https://instance.tld/@JohnDoe",
    "image": "https://fediversewiki-api.herokuapp.com/images/john-doe.jpg",
    "language": "English",
    "region": "Sweden",
    "user": true,
    "group" : false,
    "creator": true,
    "companyOrganization": false,
    "project": false,
    "applicationSoftware": false
  }

and also add a corresponding profile picture in public/images with a 1x1 aspect ratio.


notes

note; "fediverse" form work as link handle. for things like applications, instead of the fediverse handle insert the website name/short link "fediverse": "sitename.com",

multiple categories and subcategories if longer than 10 letters has to be added spaces in-between, "category": "Applications/Software" >> "category": "Applications/ Software" or else the description would be pruned.


The API

You don't need an API key to use the api, so technically fediverse applications like mastodon can utilize this for their search results.


What is submitted?

the things you can submit is as follows;

  • All users, groups.
  • Creators.
  • related companies and organization.
  • projects.
  • applications/software.

that's what the filtering could do as for now. general users can submit themselves in the search.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

oh, 3 days is not that bad. I thought it might take you several months of continuous, back breaking work LOL. I can wait 3 days standing on my head (manner of speaking).

And yeah, I was actually interested in scraping posts / articles for keywords that I can market on. But, no hurry! One step at a time and we will eventually get there :)

If you manage to keep your little software updated and relevant - and as Mastodon grows bigger (I'm thinking of getting 100s of millions of people using it across all instances) - you will have a goose that lays golden eggs. It will be a real value for marketers, you could probably charge $100s per month for its usage but I obviously don't recommend it because then I'd be left out cause I don't have that kind of money yet :p

Anyway, keep up the good work! I'll give your improved search engine a new try in 3 days... or 7... or however long it takes....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'll maybe just ask for donations so I can keep the servers up and maybe upgrade it without me paying for it. nothing like putting ads or making people pay annually for a premium price. after all this is an open community.

I'm doing all this while not knowing how to code. I'm learning stuff as I go on. yeah... probably 3 days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

agreed with the non-ads route. Kudos to you :)