Richard MacManusDec 21, 2022
My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon

Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale.

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Show threadJames GleickDec 21, 2022
@ricmac @blaine I happen to agree with this: “Many people would like to join a Mastodon instance that lets them open their posts up for indexing, so that we can search content on that instance — it’s good for topic tracking, monitoring news, etc.”
Show threadMarek McGann

@JamesGleick @ricmac @blaine

I saw a post somewhere yesterday that public posts become searchable via Google.

On Google, you can enter:

site: instance keyword

to search an instance's public feed for a keyword. e.g.

site: sciencemastodon.com indexing

Far from perfect, and will always lag content by a while (until Google's crawlers find it), but potentially of use.

Dec 21, 2022 at 10:24pmWeb
Show threadMarek McGannDec 21, 2022
@JamesGleick @ricmac @blaine
Of course now I can't find the post...