Today, each application (and server/instance) that participates in the Fediverse is largely independent when it comes to discovery. User search, discovery of content, trends and recommendations are not easily possible across the network. This is especially problematic for small servers.

"Fediscovery" is a project led by Mastodon gGmbH and funded by NGI Search that explores a way to improve this situation with a set of external services that any fediverse software can use.

The project is meant to produce both specifications that everyone can implement and a reference server implementation.

This talk will give an overview of the project and its goals. And it will give an update about the current state of both the specification efforts and the reference implementation.