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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:48:12 -0800
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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:48:12 -0800
Searching for topics or hashtags never brings anything up. Is there some setting I need to change to get the search to reach the whole fediverse?
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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:06:52 -0800
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So far as I know, searching only sees that which your Streams instance has a copy of locally.
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:02:05 -0800
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In the long term, the infrastructure exists to perform distributed search across a number of sites and collate the results - all in a way that respects personal boundaries and privacy.
It's a large chunk of work and at the moment I've got a number of things in the work queue ahead of it. Would love it if somebody wanted to adopt this and run with it. Otherwise, I'll get to it eventually. The downside is that it probably won't be compatible with Mastodon, because that software uses proprietary search backends and advisory permissions and what we're doing is all based on open standards.
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Jupiter Rowland
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:12:25 -0800
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You mean
all
content on
every
instance of
every
Fediverse project, no matter how small, no matter how obscure, no matter how new?
This won't happen. This is technologically impossible. Even if each (streams) instance had a built-in Fediverse search crawler that automatically detects instances and then scrapes all content from them, that crawler will never be able to always cover 100% of the Fediverse.
And without a search crawler, any (streams) instance and any Fediverse instance can only know content that's being delivered to it by the contacts of its own users.
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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:05:42 -0800
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What would be the best practice to find users with common interests? For instance #
homesteading
or #
gardening
? Would I have to goto other fedi instances like Minds or Mastedon and search each one?
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Giac El Vecio
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:13:54 -0800
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You can search for a group (music group - Rock group - jazz and books.... Just examples), in the zot/nomad planet we already have groups.
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:08:04 -0800
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Add some keywords to your profile. There's a field for this. These get turned into hashtags on your profile. Then in the Directory, look for 'Channel Suggestions' and it will match your interests up with people that your site discovers.
Your site will discover the world around it pretty quickly. My single user instance knows about over 50000 people, and it has only been online for about six months. There is a site setting for how aggressively you want your directory to grow. The default is 10, so for every connection made by anybody on your site, it will learn about 10 more - the first 10 people in their following list. Be careful making this too big because it is capable of discovering most of the fediverse in pretty short order and will chew through disk space.
These suggestions are usually pretty high quality, because your site is learning about the fediverse through friends of friends - the same way that humans learn about the world around them.
Your personal settings also have a switch (on by default) to import public conversations your friends are involved in that don't necessarily involve you. This means your own stream can also grow pretty aggressively. Following a very small handful of people can quickly overwhelm you with content.
You're also welcome to use something like gup.pe groups or the buzz relay to follow hashtags from around the fediverse to get started. There are a few of these services. It won't be very long and I doubt you'll need these any more.
I'm just saying that it won't take very long for even a single user instance to "feel like" a huge well-connected space.
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Axehaft
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:49:33 -0800
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Excellent info! Is there a wiki or something that talks about this for Streams? This is the kind of info a noob like me is looking for!
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:10:23 -0800
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Documentation is still a bit sparse but is steadily improving. Your best source of info is this group and asking questions. There's a lot of stuff in the group archives - and I believe it's all searchable (I'll double check the settings). Visit the group homepage and you should be able to save it as an opensearch provider in your browser. Or save fediversity.site as a search provider and you'll also get any of my rantings that didn't make it to the group.
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Bill Statler
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 12:09:01 -0800
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I'm curious how other people are doing this. Maybe the best option is to go to a few really large instances and search by hashtag, because the big sites accumulate a lot of posts from all over the Fediverse.
https://mastodon.social/tags/homesteading
... where we discover that the above comment by @
Axehaft
is currently at the top of the list.
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