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The fediverse desperately needs a global search engine. By design there are thousands of instances, each with thousands of accounts on average. Your instance on
by rakoo 5y ago
The fediverse desperately needs a global search engine. By design there are thousands of instances, each with thousands of accounts on average. Your instance only knows about the instances it is connected to, and nothing about the others. As such small, personal instances are penalized because they might not be super connected.
A single entry point will give a better view about what's happening on the whole fediverse, and potentially accounts to follow. Building such an entry point will require a stack that can handle asynchronous jobs run in parallel, an area where the Erlang platform can truly shine. Give it a live view with Phoenix/LiveView and it's gonna be a banger.
- jamil7 5y agoCool idea, I do use mastodon and see a bit of discussion around this topic. Looks like there’s even some existing code.