Federation enables browsing, and synchronizing (parts of) spaces outside the user’s space into your SilverBullet client.

This enables a few things:

• Linking and browsing to other publicly hosted SilverBullet spaces (or websites adhering to its API). For instance the SilverBullet CHANGELOG without leaving the comfort of your own SilverBullet client.
• Reusing content from externally hosted sources, such as:
  • Libraries synchronization. By federating with silverbullet.md/Library/Core, you will get you access to the templates hosted there without copying (Library: Import‘ing) them and automatically pull in the latest versions.
  • Data: such as tasks, item, data hosted elsewhere that you want to query from your own space.

Note: Federation does not support authentication yet, so all federated spaces need to be unauthenticated and will be read-only.

Browsing

Browsing other publicly hosted spaces is as simple as navigating to a page starting with ! such as CHANGELOG.

Federating

To synchronize federated content into your client, you need to list these URIs in your SETTINGS under the federate key. For instance:

federate:
- uri: silverbullet.md/Library/Core/

This will synchronize all content under !silverbullet.md with a Library/Core/ prefix (so all templates hosted there) locally.

Currently, content can only be synchronized in read-only mode, so you can not edit the synchronized files. This will likely change in the future.

Hosting

Tooling to make hosting public spaces is still a work in progress.