Is making user interaction between instances easier even possible in current state of fediverse and the protocol?
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Dude try search any lemmy.word group in there. Either it doesn't work or someone is filtering them off.
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They do not appear at the moment. Something is probably broken.
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There was a bug that prevented instances running old versions from showing up, perhaps it's back?
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They were still days a few days ago
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The Devs of every fediverse software run the biggest instances of that type and those instances don't have this problem.
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Content discovery on Mastodon can be hit or miss
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Its absolutely an issue that can be solved. The issue is that activpub is push based so their is no sing e source of truth. U could do a atproto style collector service that provides a search interface. U could also probably get a good but imperfect search by using the concept of n degrees of separation. Ie u search ur instance then search other instances who then search other instances.
Also some of the larger instances avoid the search issue by having a bot from their own instance subscribe to communities on other instances so that the content federates.
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Seems to me the solution to this is registering protocol handlers for URLs, which Mastodon tried and gave up on because they weren't happy with how web browsers handled it.
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They're back
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Yay! Wonder what caused the outage.
