Post APL0cXCp7Go8xRoS7U by farhan@bikeshed.party
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 (DIR) Post #APHNeHYkrpaVcXDNnU by jann@twit.social
       2022-11-05T02:14:33Z
       
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       #Hashtag searches should be #fediverse-wide - even if it took creating a list and letting the server do background #searching.Otherwise it is useless cos you don’t KNOW which instances your server “knows about” and that is important!“If you search an #hashtag it will not list all the posts from all the existing #instances containing it but only the #posts #published by users that your instance knows.“This is easily fixed. BUT will they?
       
 (DIR) Post #APHNeHsxehkcdCfWIC by xabean@infosec.exchange
       2022-11-05T02:15:52Z
       
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       @jann not as easy as you'd think, because everything is distributed and there is no central authority
       
 (DIR) Post #APHNeIPZhRq4GLvZ7w by feld@bikeshed.party
       2022-11-05T02:19:55.282156Z
       
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       @farhan built a Fediverse wide search that worked pretty well. Shockingly accurate. Dunno if it's being maintained
       
 (DIR) Post #APHNyLVvsGUdg1Sh6m by feld@bikeshed.party
       2022-11-05T02:23:41.643881Z
       
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       I still think it should be possible to opt in to sending copies of your posts to a search service in return for an API key to query it
       
 (DIR) Post #API1fEYBXMgqkAxNq4 by duponin@udongein.xyz
       2022-11-05T09:48:28.631757Z
       
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       @feld @farhan @xabean @jann hashtags aren't federated (see FOSDEM 2020 discussions) and a ~central search engine seems to be either a terrible idea or worst
       
 (DIR) Post #APIMThV4Av8w5lq8Vk by farhan@bikeshed.party
       2022-11-05T13:24:01.043872Z
       
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       @duponin @feld @xabean @jann IMO it's up to each person how they use the data
       
 (DIR) Post #APIMTiE5TX9iLOu5gW by duponin@udongein.xyz
       2022-11-05T13:41:45.031297Z
       
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       @farhan @feld @xabean @jann hence no central search engine
       
 (DIR) Post #APL0cXCp7Go8xRoS7U by farhan@bikeshed.party
       2022-11-06T20:19:43.318610Z
       
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       When you say central, you mean a single one that everyone would use?That, of course, is not possible as this is a decentralized system.
       
 (DIR) Post #APL0cXdlV6MIJ0Py76 by feld@bikeshed.party
       2022-11-06T20:20:41.541081Z
       
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       But we could have many such search engines and people could opt into using whichever they wanted