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   Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 04:14:29 JST Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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   @coop a question:

   When I use my Search interface, I also see a bunch of posts. I assume they are related to our instance, in some way.

   How are these curated?
   Thanks

   /cc @evan

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 04:14:28 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @deborahh @coop The search content comes mostly from 2 things:

     - Accounts you follow
     - Accounts that others on CoSocial follow

     There are a couple of other sources -- boosts, replies -- but that's mostly it.

     So, it's not really "curated", except that I've followed people I'm interested in, and so have others on CoSocial.

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     Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 04:20:54 JST Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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     @evan @coop ok … but some form of curation must happen, otherwise this would look like thr Home feed, right? Is it curated automatically based on popularity, somehow? Or hand-curated?

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 04:27:46 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @deborahh @coop I might not understand you. When you search for a term like "example", it's going to show you posts that are related to that term.

     https://cosocial.ca/search?q=example&type=statuses

     But the home feed has content from people and hashtags you follow:

     https://cosocial.ca/home

     Search results either come from Elasticsearch or an internal Postgres search. I can't remember which one CoSocial uses.

     Let me know if that's not what you're asking.

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     Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 04:36:52 JST Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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     @evan @coop ah, yes. Clarification: I am not talking about search results.

     I mean the "posts" I automatically see beliw the search box, *before* I enter any search term. See image. (From Android using moshidon client).

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     Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 05:10:55 JST Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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     @evan @coop seems a question worth answering 😁, since it could be interpreted that those posts are endorsed by our instance.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 05:10:56 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @deborahh @coop oh, good question! I don't know.