This magazine seriously needs moderators.

@fazalmajid Maybe so, but Mastodon historically has only allowed users to look up other users, search hashtag indexes, and depending on the server, search your own posts. A lot of this was done under the pretense of protecting users from harassment, but it’s a bandaid covering over insufficient tooling for post-based interaction capabilities.

Anyway, the bigger problem is that it’s harder to find stuff in federated systems, which can be a big headache for getting new people into the Fediverse. Search isn’t a silver bullet, but it goes a long ways towards making discovery easier.

@stopthatgirl7 lmao, looks like we literally posted at the same time 😅

It’s entirely possible that a fediverse platform emerges that’s capable of performing many different kinds of activities. But, the far more likely outcome is that platforms eventually implement the Client-to-Server half of the ActivityPub protocol, which currently very few platforms implement.

The idea is that virtually every Fediverse platform could, in theory, act as clients for one another, enabling a “one account posts everything” possibility with different frontends accessing different subsets of data.

@DrChickenbeer The guy’s write-up that we linked is really something, just absolutely wild what he was able to do. Apparently he tests his app in MAME before actually running it on his Apple IIc.

@nevernevermore It’s honestly an awesome concept. The fact that the creator ported JavaScript to DOS first just blows my mind.

This has nothing to do with the Fediverse, get this spammy crap out of here.