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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 14:22:01 JST Evan Prodromou

   You know what would make a great people directory for the fediverse? https://gravatar.com/ . Opt in, known trustworthy owner, millions of existing records.

   If you could add your fediverse handle and people could find you that way, well, very nice.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 14:24:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Well, it looks like it's already there!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 14:25:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     It's a little weird that they have your Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, ... account information, but you can't search for other people based on their Twitter account (say) and get back their Mastodon account.

     That'd be a nice alternative to using the Twitter API and scraping the bio.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 22:19:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I don't need a lecture about decentralization.

     "A" people directory is not "the" people directory.

     It's not important to have secondary services like people search be as numerous as primary services like Mastodon instances.

     What's important is having a few; say, 5 to 10.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2023 22:20:11 JST Evan Prodromou

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     We've been using the Twitter API and social graph to help jump-start new users' fediverse social graph. debirdify, movetodon, fedifinder.

     It's a vulnerable point for the fediverse, and having other ways to onboard people and help them find their friends' existing fediverse accounts is important.