What is FediFinder?

FediFinder is a no-frills peer discovery service that lets you use your fediverse account to create and find more detailed profiles than what's standard on your instance. Simply select your server and you can login from there without having to make a new account. Once you're in, enter as much information as you feel comfortable sharing. From there you can search for accounts based on any of the available criteria, you can browse accounts by time, distance, and language, or you could even let a simple matching algorithm for social or romantic partners show you accounts that may be of interest to you.

How it works

How the site works (in practice):

-- You click on the "Login" page, select your instance, and hit "submit." You're redirected to your instance for OAuth, once you authenticate you will be redirected back to FediFinder to the edit profile page.

-- You can choose to share as much information as you want, you are allowed to not fill out everything except age, the default state is only the avatar/handle/bio from your fedi account.

-- You can then use the "Search" feature to search the database for profiles based on any of these attributes, or go to the "Browse" feature and see if you have any matches based on what you've added.

-- If you find a profile you like, try following or messaging them on the fediverse. As a potential ice-breaker, you can send them a message through the "Questionnaire" feature, so that important questions can be answered right up front. Look for it on their FF profile page.

How the site works (in theory):

-- Fedifinder is a centralized directory of fediverse users with the ability to create detailed profiles.

-- Each new piece of information is a new criteria by which one can search for or match with others.

-- You can use the site like a ghost, just look around and not put in any information about yourself if you so choose. I would encourage you to add something to your profile though, if nobody does then there really is no utility to the site.

-- If users have relevant information about themselves on their profile, they have a new way of finding or being found by other users that share things in common.

Rules

I would like to be as permissive as possible with this service and allow people to use the site as they wish. Unfortunately there have to be some limitations on your use of the site to allow it to continue running.

-- You must be at least 18 years of age to use the service. Age is a required field on every profile, you do not have to put your real age but you must really be an adult to sign up.

-- You may not post any content of any kind relating to sex with children. I don't care if it's a drawing or fictional literature, no media of a sexual nature regarding children is allowed at all.

-- Do not abuse the site features. Examples include but are not limited to: posting malicious links, using the questionnaire response to spam or harass people, and overloading the search with queries.

It should go without saying that any unsanctioned hacking shenanigans are not allowed. I will say it anyway though, to be clear. Sometimes harmless fun can be had but if you abuse bugs or break the site I will have to take action.

That is it, for now. Please do not force me to make new rules or write more code to curtail people's abilities.

Contact Information

You can contact me regarding this site on fedi via @HLC@noauthority.social.

Please contact me regarding:

-- Illegal material being posted on profiles (Malicious links, anything related to CSAM, or legitimate threats to others)

-- Abuse of the quiz response messaging service for REPEATED harassment (one joke response is not going to kill you)

-- Contributing features or improvements to the code (Improvements to CSS or site security are very welcome)

-- Contributing value for the site in any form (Monetary, IT services, graphics, advertisement, etc.)

-- The site or some element of it is not working properly or at all

Please do not contact me regarding:

-- Something you saw on somebody's profile upset you, but does not fit into the illegal categories listed above

-- Requests to purchase or otherwise access any kind of site statistics or backend user information

-- Requests to see the site source code without any reference or good reason for doing so

-- Inane troll comments, I will block you from messaging me and using this site