@BrianJohnson
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Yes. I *am* working on better music discovery, and talking to other resources for musicians on the Fediverse to see how we do better together.
In addition, there needs to be something you can "follow" for sure. Right now, I'm looking at it from a search perspective. As in: what if you could subscribe to tags on a search index? In a sense, each search query could become its own ActivityPub "actor"
Do you think this is a viable option?
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@benpate As I understand it (and I don’t know if this is a fediverse thing or a Mastodon thing), I can follow a hashtag, but posts with that hashtag have to originate on my home server, or get to my home thru “account following” for me to see it. My server won’t just comb the entire fediverse for posts with that hashtag.
If I am correct, then I can’t learn about new artists on another server (if it is fairly new and not widely followed) by following hashtags, I would need to follow an account. That’s why I suggested some sort of “announcement “ account I could follow.
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@BrianJohnson Yes, I think that's how it works now. Definitely a Mastodon thing, and probably similar across the Fediverse.
I think we've gotten sidetracked, so enthralled by the way things *are* that we've stopped imagining how they *could be*
On my laptop right now are the larval stages of a search index that you can "Follow" just like any other actor.
Different search queries would serve you a different version of that actor, letting you follow in real time anything in search index.
