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How do you propose to see all of this without downloading that info?

• _heimdall 3y ago
  I'm not quite sure what you mean, sorry. My point was that something like BlueSky can make content more discoverable by letting you build your own social graph and view content from those you're connected to. Search is most useful for discovering content that you otherwise have no connection to at all. There is also the historical aspect and there really isn't a way around that, but in the original context of finding people actively talking about a specific topic it isn't a necessarily must-have feature.
  • edgyquant 3y ago
    Right my point is you’re basically describing a search engine and that requires constant downloads and storage for it. Any useful graph that comes close to current social media levels of discoverability is going to require lots of storage. Otherwise you’re talking about a simple feed on someone else’s computer delivered to you and this defeats the purpose of federalization.
    • _heimdall 3y ago
      We must be talking about slightly different things here. Sure the data all has to be stored somewhere, but I'm not arguing for everyone to have a local copy of all of Twitter just so they can search it. I wasn't pushing for federalization at all, and honestly its a bad fit for anything similar to social networks IMO. Federalization doesn't work well if the goal is universal reach, why federate the network graph when you still want to access all data on the network? The fediverse won't work at scale, the sheer amount of data duplication and network traffic would be insane. Even if we could somehow find a way to handle all the traffic, it sure seems like that would fly in the face of environmental efforts so many are onboard with (storage and bandwidth aren't cheap at that scale).