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You're presupposing that discoverability requires some degree of centralization.

• Animats 1y ago
  We haven't seen a distributed Google yet. It's not impossible, but each distributed component would have to be at least a small data center.
  • treyd 1y ago
    Google search does a lot more complex processing (crawling, historical weighting) and it does it on unstructured pages. Discoveravility in a microblogging system doesn't have to be a lot more than indexing/collation of structured posts, and end-user clients can be designed to participate in that. "Retweets"/"boosts" are already a form of that.
    • cheeze 1y ago
      Sure, but fediverse numbers are pitiful at this point. Reality is that 99.9% of users don't care about decentralization, so it ends up being a "this has to work as well as a centralized system" does.
  • fsflover 1y ago
    > We haven't seen a distributed Google https://yacy.net https://yacy.net
    • Animats 1y ago
      You can index your own stuff and propagate that index to others. This is what people would have thought good when Gopher was a thing.