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I'm not an expert on the topic but that sounds like the Fediverse.
by t0astbread 7y ago
I'm not an expert on the topic but that sounds like the Fediverse.
- lucb1e 7y agoWould you know what protocol they use for search? I see that things like the Plume blogging platform have a cross-instance search, but whenever I ctrl+f for search on any documentation page there's nothing. For example, it says the four protocols it uses are activitypub (link goes to the spec at W3; the whole spec never mentions the word search), webfinger (spec page, an RFC, also never mentions it), HTTP signatures (just for verification it seems), and nodeinfo ("not part of the federation itself, but that gives some metadata about each instance"). I've looked in more places but this was one of the more concrete examples of where there clearly is search but I can't find the code or protocol anywhere. Edit: checked another; Peertube does not seem to search across instances.