Mastodon EngineeringWe are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details:
Jasdemi 
@MastodonEngineering @EC_NGI This is gonna be great for single user instances.
C.W. Smith 🇺🇲It will definitely make running a single user instance a bit easier from scratch.
Concidering I need to think up how I want to do community features on a few sites it maybe help a lot there as well.
🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻♓🧿@CWSmith what does this do?
Looks like it will allow for a plugin ecosystem for search and search providers in a federated system. Making it easier to find people through search as opposed to going through instances and searching separately.
It's optional as well so.
@CWSmith so your small instance can use someone else's search index? that seems useful. Elastic search is a beast