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#HolosDiscover is back, from a clean slate.
A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub.
You have full control. Block it, mention it with "unfollow", or disable indexing in your settings.
Source code under AGPL-3.0 on #Codeberg.

Details: https://discover.holos.social/how-it-works

Account: @HolosDiscover

Holos Discover - How It Works

Feb 23 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadjulianFeb 23
@[email protected] do you have an API we can use? It'd be interesting to hook into your search results for fediverse search.
Show threadFedilab AppsFeb 23
@julian
There's a public API where you can search posts, accounts, hashtags, get trending content, public timelines, and instance stats.
Documentation: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-Discover/src/branch/main/doc/api.md
Base URL is https://discover.holos.social. Quick example:
https://discover.holos.social/api/search?q=fediverse&type=posts
No authentication for now, but we may introduce API keys in the future.
Holos-Discover/doc/api.md at main

Holos-Discover - Privacy-first Fediverse search engine using native ActivityPub federation; indexes only consenting users with instant deletion support

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Show threadjulianFeb 23
@[email protected] appreciate the open API but of course be wary of abuse. I would not be opposed to registering for an API key when needed 🙂
Show thread-karlos-Feb 23
@HolosDiscover
Sounds good. A lot text about indexing and how it works.
But no Text about what it does and how to use. What UI, Instances?
Show threadRokosunFeb 24

@karlos @HolosDiscover

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Show threadOur Wonderful Green FutureFeb 25
@apps @HolosDiscover
How do I make this account discoverable?
Show threadEve VentuallyMar 5

@apps @[email protected] This is still not “opt in” by any meaningful definition. It’s still actually opt-out. The change y’all have made is, in terms of why we demanded you stop, functionally meaningless.

It also appears not to be processing changes people make to their own settings to turn off indexing. Having indexing allowed isn’t actually equivalent to opting in but it appears this isn’t even really doing that if indexing was turned on at the time your bot followed us.

There would be value in having a true opt-in indexer on the Fediverse. Why not build that instead of calling yours opt-in when it’s actually opt-out?