NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

@BeAware @polarity @hopland @zilog80 I think a huge part of this is funding. To move quickly you need someone to be able to dedicate a lot of time. To do that, they usually either need someone to pay them to do it or they need to think that there might be a payout down the line. As long as the fediverse doesn't have a monetization scheme, you can't move quickly on anything. An API for search where people could then monetize their own third-party search solution could be a good step.

@BeAware @hopland @zilog80 @polarity I suppose you could have a 'search this server' 'private' search, but for this discussion, I assume we're focusing on the fediverse as a whole, looking only for accounts that want to be found?

@BeAware @hopland @zilog80 @polarity

What are the valid points, and why are they easier to address with a client side solution? I'm a little bit of a data science guy, though I teach machine learning and not search algorithms

If an indexing service simply respected a server or account flag to be ignored, wouldn't that be enough? Or is it important that a specific account has different visibility to various searchers?

@hopland @dansup

Well, we're not entirely alone, though perhaps a minority. Looking through my own interactions, I would loop @BeAware, @zilog80 and @polarity into the conversation. Perhaps you know of others too?

@hopland @dansup

I really want this particular discussion to become more coherent across the different people bringing it up. Is there a good hashtag for it, or should we invent one? #fedisearch?