@glyph There were experiments to provide a network-wide search. To create a thing so that you could look for people you know, or what was happening in the wide, across instances. But a part of the community disagreed with the very idea so no one wants to take the risk to run it again. Mastodon has problems, but to think that only the software or the project is blocking adoption is just deflecting blame.
I do believe that it's part of ActivityPub, because that's exactly the usecase: there's an object you're currently seeing and you want to interact with it.
I'm no AP dev, I have no experience at all, only armchair ideas so my goal isn't to say what you're doing is bad; quite the contrary, you're building stuff so you'ro certainly more relevant ! I'm just commenting on the sidelines.
The thing I like about the idea of AP is that it is about manipulation and exchange of data structures, whereas the APIs are about RPCs. I like that because it makes my data more portable, less dependent on an implementation or an instance.
What I would love to see is the AP concept more widespread for interacting: - when I see content I want to interact with, my user agent can pick the object url in the http headers and/or in a <link> tag if it's presented in an html document - my user-agent allows me to send AP activities, optionally linking to object urls
This obviously requires changes in the browser (which is where Mozilla should put its brain but that's another discussion), but can be first done in an extension. Bonus: it works for *all* AP implementations @tchambers
C'est typiquement ce positionnement "si t'es pas avec nous t'es contre nous" qui m'embête parce qu'il laisse croire qu'il n'existe que deux camps et que si tu n'es pas maximalement d'un côté forcément tu es de l'autre. Je suis critique envers le positionnement "démantèlement le plus vite possible de tout ce qui touche le nucléaire" parce, pour reprendre le terme de @oiseau_rouge le monde éthéré du changement de mode de vie global et instantané n'existe pas, mais ça fait pas de moi un pro-nuke
yes, each application has its own index. The point is that if they all need the same feature anyway, why not mutualize it ?
Silly comparison: we could say that everything should be stored as blocks laid out randomly on a disk, and each app defines an index from an identifier to a list of blocks. If everyone does it, might as well do it at the layer below @dalias@ptrc@ska@navi@lispi314
full text search doesn't need ram, it needs proper data structures. Proper data structures can be stored on disk and popped in and out of memory as needed, but don't have to @dalias@ptrc@ska@navi@lispi314
But you haven't had to deal with the maintenance of yous firefox settings, or anyone with the maintenance of their Android apps internal storage. The proposed solution here is SQLite specifically @dalias@lanodan@ptrc@navi@lispi314
It's the "You can always do [additional, undocumented process] to do the thing you wan to do" part that is elitist, not the choice of technical solution. @dalias@ptrc@ska@navi@lispi314
No, indexing will include text as well because obviously I want to search in it. That's the whole point.
To be clear I'm not talking about getting read of MUAs but just rethinking the interface between it and content. So the mua *can* know the mime structure and will use the *same* tricks when querying. That's the whole point of a database @dalias@ptrc@ska@navi@lispi314
The whole point of databases is that there is no need for additional systems for indexing, because storing is useless without querying. I see the value in storing in a *single* system that provides features rather than being yet again elitist and telling people to do their own stuff on their own, resulting in no one doing it. Let's not dismiss changes just because you know how to use a system @lispi314@dalias@lanodan@ptrc@navi
On pourrait commencer par faire en sorte que les gens qui se garent illégalement sur le trottoir se garent enfin sur la route
Cette vidéo est grave intéressante mais le passage "pour que les gens fassent gaffe il faut réveiller le flic en permanence dans leur tête" m'a déprimé
les liens twitter sont morts mais les autres marchent, ce que j'ai pu en comprendre: - une marche à la torche qui nea "absolument rien à voir" avec les marches des néo-nazis qu'il y a eu en même temps - des commentaires qui reprennent les dog whistle des antisémites facho - rejet de tout ce qui diminue de près ou de loin les inégalités, l'utilisation du terme sjw - de manière générale une position "apolitique" (donc de droite), méritocratique, hautaine, mais ça c'est général au numérique :)
Francilien de naissance, Azuréen d'adoption, Ligérien de cœur.A Gauche de la Gauche. Toutes les inepties de ce système remontent au Capitalisme.Aime la technologie, n'aime pas le progrès.