. @dave asking for people to help with Fediscovery

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Someone from audience asking — couldn't the data between the search-providers be shared, to try to prevent centralization?

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@reiver I think you could, but you'd need to have data processing agreements in place for the sharing of that data.

Someone in the audience asked what I was also thinking — you could create a community specific search-provider server.

(Ex: just for science community, or toy photography community, etc.)

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. @cwebber and @tsyesika in front of the Web Social room at FOSDEM

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. @floppy in front of the Social Web room, talking about Manyfold

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Michael Jerger in front of the Social Web room at FOSDEM, talking about Forgejo

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Stéphane & Alexandra in front of the Social Web room at FOSDEM, talking about Mobilizon

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. @johnonolan in front of the Social Web room at FOSDEM

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Extant centralized social media is good for marketing (your content), not for the distribution of your content.

So, many have a site that they own for distribution and use extant centralized social-media to market and get people there to the site they own.

(Note from @reiver : I know a number of people who have been doing this for a while.)

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You cannot just broadcast your content into social-media, but not read, reply, and engage yourself — and be successful.

You need to be social, too. You need to read, reply, and engage, too.

(Note from @reiver : many have said the same.)

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"Giant social media companies might rug-pull [your account]"

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If the product isn't great, the rest doesn't matter.

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. @evan in front of the Social Web room at FOSDEM.

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. @johnonolan just mentioned @hongminhee and @fedify

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@reiver wow, I love this photo!

@reiver@mastodon.social that would be me!

I was poking fun a bit at @dave@upp2.com because Fediscovery is an ambitious solution to one of the fediverse's "hard problems". Why not feature creep some more while I'm there? hah!

The full gist of the question was... "the broad use-case of fediscovery would be to try to achieve some sort of global search, where anything can be found, but could there be a use-case where someone could use the Fediscovery FASP to build a domain-specific search provider, e.g. science-based, meme-based, etc.?"

I'll be speaking more about those "hard problems" tonight at the Social Web After-Hours event at HSBXL. Will you be there? I'd love to say hello!