If Twitter and Facebook hadn't spent 8 years suppressing links on their platforms, they could have become search engines of their own, and both they and the world would be better for it.
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If Twitter and Facebook hadn't spent 8 years suppressing links on their platforms, they could have become search engines of their own, and both they and the world would be better for it. Links in posts is an incredibly rich source of data about quality and relevance, after all.
Just something I think about a lot, while I build a social media back end.
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replied to Jenniferplusplus on last edited by
@[email protected] will you implement a nostalgic mode that randomly shadowbans your account, reduces visibility when you use certain words and a timeline full of agorithmically curated bigotry? For the tumblr users. Me specifically. It feels so weird to just. Not have to play with these hidden rules of engagement all the time to appease this force I'm barely able to perceive.
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replied to Amber (deilannist) on last edited by
@puppygirlhornypost2 no promises, but PRs are eagerly welcomed
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replied to Jenniferplusplus on last edited by
@jenniferplusplus huh i'd never thought of it that way but that's pretty interesting
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replied to kira :3 on last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] Real talk, it's one of the reasons i use links so much with my posts. I can then use the instance search to look up key words (that were in my post containing the link) and make a ghetto search engine. It's very effective.
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replied to Amber (deilannist) on last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] It's almost as if talking about content and describing it is a good way of getting natural "seo". Not placing a bunch of shitty tags and buzzwords to boost your content's visibility.
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replied to Amber (deilannist) on last edited by
@puppygirlhornypost2 @chrisisgr8 I genuinely want to do this. "Build my own search engine" was the other project I was considering instead of letterbook. It would be so satisfying to do both.
You know, eventually.
It's a 2+ years from now idea.
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replied to Jenniferplusplus on last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] just make letterbook have a good search implementation. not whatever the fuck we have right now lol
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replied to Amber (deilannist) on last edited by
@puppygirlhornypost2 @chrisisgr8 the problem is that full text search is expensive and complicated. Search itself isn't even on my roadmap rn
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replied to Jenniferplusplus on last edited by
@jenniferplusplus they never wanted to make the web better, they only ever wanted to sell ads.
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replied to Paul Shryock on last edited by
@paulshryock yes, but the conventional business model for a search engine is to sell ads. So I'm not sure I see a reason not to do this, except that it might take more than 1 quarter to pay off
