Doesn’t help that they have offered no explanation at all.
Doesn’t help that they have offered no explanation at all.
Are you aware of https://granary.io/? It may be helpful for implementing your ideas
Discoverablility of what?
How would this help? What is the problem this addresses?
Many of the functions provided by a Mastodon service is split into separate services in the AT Protocol. This means there are instances that just handle an end users data, instances that just handle indexing and streaming out the amalgamated end user data being streamed to the “relay”, there are instances that are just filtering the stream from the indexing relay. so basically the various backend parts are modular with the AT Protocol rather than monolithic as is assumed by the ActivityPub protocol where separation is assumed to be only between the frontend and backend of the service.
Bluesky is probably going to capture more of that than Mastodon. But threads is similarly struggling to develop it as well and they have very low barrier for new signups for anyone with a Facebook or Instagram account.
Many people are most interested in profit as their only KPI and mastodon puts up a lot of hurdles for those people.
Anything that you’re not willing and able to keep financially sustained yet rely upon will likely be used against you by someone with more resources. This is why groups like Fosstodon, Beehaw, and Fedihosting Foundation stand out in these spaces. They are both transparent and financially sustainable. But most of that sustainability relies on unpaid volunteer labor.
Bluesky has no documentation for running a relay (indexing node). It doesn’t seem like they intend to have any documentation on it any time soon. But it is possible to set one up yourself. I don’t know anyone that has done so.
I’ve been using mojeek and ddg, but I’ve been considering setting up SearXNG on a server.
Are you talking about blusky’s indexer?
Not yet
They’re purposely disruptive to the community, they are not part of the community.
Lemmy.world has no lock in on their “power”. They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That’s makes them stable, so people aren’t worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don’t worry about the service being flaky.
Peering agreements have been around for a long time on the internet, they’re part the backbone of the internet.
Peering agreements for internet traffic, what a stupid concept.