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tauli

@Codeberg being federated in the way mastodon is, would make it hard to search.

10 May at 12:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Codeberg.org

@tauli A problem that is probably not impossible to solve.

Without wanting to go into details here, because there are probably smarter minds involved with federation who could come up with a better strategy, this is a simple idea to approach this:

- instances are often specific to topics, e.g. space, biology etc, similar to how the StackExchange network already works.

10 May at 12:26 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Codeberg.org

@tauli Instances with related topics could follow each other to also search their index (or replicate the remote content in a local search index) to provide useful results from other instances.

This allows to keep the overall index small enough, because you don't have to index everything but only instances relevant to your's focus.

10 May at 12:27 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
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@tauli @Codeberg Searching in a distributed network is harder than in a centralized one, but the problem with search on fedi is social - any time someone wants to make an inter-instance search engine, half of fedi loses their shit and threatens violence.
10 May at 12:30 | Open on yourwalls.today
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