Damus
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Did you see the Discovery Servers?

> A self-hosted, headless server binary (server/) that adds opt-in aggregation, search, and trending to the P2P network. Users register with a server by signing a cryptographic proof of identity. The server subscribes to their gossip topics and indexes their posts in SQLite with FTS5, exposing an HTTP API for search, trending hashtags, user directory, and aggregated feeds.

> The server is an overlay -- the P2P layer remains the foundation. Users who never connect to a server lose nothing.

> Users choose a visibility level when registering:
> Public -- Profile and posts visible to all
> Listed -- Profile visible in directory, posts only to followers
> Private -- Registered but invisible on server
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Nuh · 2d
I actually worked on this stuff and thought about it deeply, but I am not very optimistic on it at scale. Pushing notifications to an aggregator whenever you have something new, the ActivityPub way makes sense. And Crawlers make sense. But pushing a "hey please subscribe to me" the way Bluesky do...