Jorge Caballero, MDJul 17, 2023
Mastodon is the best social network for breaking news from trusted sources. I wish the Mastodon Core project would prioritize features such as global search that would make it easier to discover boots-on-the-ground reporters and OSINT (and no, hashtags don't work so spare me the proselytizing)
Show threadRaineer  ðŸ¦†Jul 17, 2023

@DataDrivenMD @lisamelton making good search decentralized is a genuinely difficult problem.

Does my ~100 user instance have to catalog the whole fediverse? Does every single-user instance need to? To be effective it essentially needs to be centralized, and that brings us back to the original problem which created mastodon so many years ago.

Show threadFrazell Thomas

@raineer @DataDrivenMD @lisamelton It certainly is a challenging problem and one that I feel is naturally monopolistic. It would take some centralization to, at least, coordinate indexing and searching across the entire Fediverse. That said, it is a problem that needs to be iterated on and solved.

Discoverability is the biggest challenge the Fediverse currently faces for new users. I think search can done without undermining core principles.

Jul 17, 2023 at 2:57pmWeb