@JMMaok Oh my that sounds so fun. It would be a way to scout for cultural similarity between instances and best fit for users (could it be an abuse vector though?). #Discord charges users to use their custom server #emoji between servers and I would appreciate a more open approach... but after tracking down the issue page for joinmastodon.org I realized don't really know how would this work. Would require some sort of central #search able database of emoji?

This is a great essay (and tool). I wanted to highlight one passage:

"All that's really necessary [to make an opt-in search index] is to create an ActivityPub instance and have users follow a specific account in order to opt-in. It even simplifies the system's architecture, because indexable content will get sent straight to the index instance, with no spiders required."

While you say this has been talked about before, *I* hadn't seen it so clearly expressed, so thanks!
#Fediverse #search

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