Posts by janl@chaos.social
 (DIR) Post #ARP7vxAvpiGBTZ3iCm by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-07T13:30:25Z
       
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       @cjk @Codeberg 5€ auf Festplatte voll.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARP9wnJOBtzv5AXky8 by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-07T16:06:18Z
       
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       @Codeberg it’s a fair cop
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcQg7ujpiSkz3mPw by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T16:19:19Z
       
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       Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for MastodonIt fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.Here goes: https://searchtodon.social
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcQlTiqB8DM4IlbU by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T16:22:16Z
       
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       I want to be very upfront: if this is something the community rather not have, I’ll shut it down.But, I think there are three hypotheses worth exploring:1. User experience: can this be done in a way that users want?2. Operational feasibility: how much extra burden would this be on instance operators?3. Community: is this something Mastodon folks at large are comfortable with.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcQmxXKoZfwpG5iK by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T16:23:59Z
       
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       And just to spell it out: this is not harvesting the Fediverse. There is no AI, there is no VC and very likely no monetisation strategy at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcQrs34e9hBFjHM0 by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T16:24:39Z
       
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       Finally, big big big thanks to @elk and everybody who contributed so far, without y’all, this wouldn’t have been possible. <3
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcQtP3NQ9NvuB9RA by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T16:36:19Z
       
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       Oh, and also also thanks to @timbray for doing the hard work of guiding my choices around community consent: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search as well as @darius who helped privately.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARZcjR8qfyUvmfRRq4 by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-12T17:18:05Z
       
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       @bortzmeyer Elk is 0.4.0 and two months old, let’s not chide it for niche features. 100% ok if you don’t trust this yet.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARbJkqVULRF5vfuSCu by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-13T10:28:41Z
       
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       @c0debabe I don’t think it’s a hard concept at all. But with nobody having opted in, the search would be useless and we wouldn't get any positive signal for folks wanting this (there now is). I hope we can have this part of instances if it continues to be useful for people, so the original trust relationship is restored. — Thank you for taking the time to engage and comment.
       
 (DIR) Post #AReRa3fyQMP2h83pHE by janl@chaos.social
       2023-01-14T15:05:18Z
       
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       As promised, here’s an update on Searchtodon.I have shut it down & deleted all data (as of 14:06 CET today).As implemented, it does not gel *with* the Mastodon community, although the functionality did prove useful to a lot of people.I’m working on a retrospective that hopefully can inform future experimenters.Thanks everybody for giving it a try and for all your constructive feedback!