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   interru (interru@our-town.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 17:14:43 JST interru

   • Luca Hammer
   @Luca I am extremly wary of anything which could cause further centralization. So as of now it's a no from me.
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     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 17:16:36 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

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     • Luca Hammer

     @Luca @interru You're missing the diversity that comes with having community-based hashtags, trends etc. If these things become global, that diversity is lost. Sure, right now people can *choose* to go into Explore and maybe they'll see some big accounts that are shared by people on many servers, but the servers themselves still retain their own flavour and there is value in that.

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     Luca Hammer (luca@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 17:16:37 JST Luca Hammer

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     @interru Now, I am even more confused.

     The fediverse is already global. I can follow any account I want. That leads to the typical longtail distribution. Because of how search works at the moment, the few accounts with massive followings are visible on more instances than the ones with few followers. A fediverse wide search would give visibility to accounts with fewer followers.

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     interru (interru@our-town.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 17:16:38 JST interru

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     • Luca Hammer
     @Luca I mean centralization of opinion formation. The technical aspect isn't that important.
     
     I don't want that we replicate the same mistake twitter did: Making everything global which in the end will destroy nuance and different perspectives. It creates an environment where radicalized opinions strive. It would centralize opinion formation to a few opinion leaders.
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     Luca Hammer (luca@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 17:16:39 JST Luca Hammer

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     @interru That argument goes both ways.

     Not having fedi-wide search means that people who want to be found, flock to the biggest instances hence more centralization.

     Making such a search engine open source, could lead to multiple search instances and prevent people from using mastodon.social for search.