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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 08:15:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Les Orchard

   @lmorchard this sounds like a good idea.

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     Les Orchard (lmorchard@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 08:15:13 JST Les Orchard

     I do have another fediverse search idea that I want to try: a bot that indexes for mutual follows.

     That is, you follow it, it follows you - the public posts it receives from you go into the index. You stop following, it stops following - it deletes everything it knows about you. Toots don't end up in the index otherwise.

     I want to build it as a "bare metal" activitypub server, independent of any particular instance. That's a little harder, which is why I got the personal timeline index working first as a Mastodon client.

     But, I think indexing mutuals is closer to the "would you like a cup of tea?" model of consent. (Which isn't perfect either, but has fewer assumptions.)