We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It’s a social instance, but also a discovery portal.
We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It’s a social instance, but also a discovery portal.
No, that’s accurate. It’s basically that, except it’s done through ActivityPub federation, aggregates a bunch of different types of activity objects, and makes them sortable / searchable / filterable / rendered in a pretty interface. It can even help provide a lot of that info to other instances connected to it.
Like, aside from some foundational bits, the technology itself is not super special. Actually, Bonfire does a ton of really cool things under the hood, but that’s only a little bit relevant.
On the bright side, it does make a bunch of things easier to find, search for, and learn about:
Like, honestly it’s an idea that sounds kind of stupid on the surface, but it’s basically federated Yahoo with a grassroots bent. But I think there are aspects, from a community organizing aspect, that this could actually be useful. It’s like hyperlocalism but for the network itself. You offer ways for people to find communities, read about what’s being developed, find some mom and pop business, commission an artist, listen to some music.
I think what might really set it apart is that no one has built a Fediverse instance specifically geared towards that way of thinking. That’s what we’re interested in trying.
its funny, because i setup my server with the idea in mind i would just subscribe the “system” to everything, making the local search the primary one for users.
mbin was the only product at the time that covered the most AP objects so i could grab microblog and threadiverse shit.
scaling will always be an issue. not sure how youre going to get around that… and the god damn scrapers. its hard to keep an open system when the world wants to break it.