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@bblfish

After deploying the Babelfish [1] machine translation engine at AtlaVista in the 1990s, Henry has been working on Decentralised social Networks since 2004 at Sun Microsystems when he took up foaf, contributing to the Atom Syntax syndication format, WebID Authentication, then in 201x worked on Linked Data Protocol, Social Linked Data Platform (Solid), and now is working on Access Control. He read philosophy, spent three years immersed in [2] Category Theory towards a Solid Phd, and earns a living programming in #Scala. He will also talk to you about the #WebOfNations.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqHkYtREAE
[2] Category Theory is the mathematics of duality, more https://web-cats.gitlab.io/

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bblfish · 155w
Is there a limit to the length of the queries? I have the following in my settings "Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR...
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Is there @pedja some filter reducing what is visible in my disjunctive query? For example with the query from the settings:
"Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp OR #Cognitive OR #CognitiveScience OR #Psychology"

The following page does not appear:
(not my preferred choice, but as I am trying to debug this functionality...)
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pedja · 155w
i see that note in results when i search for those terms https://primal.net/search/%23maths%20OR%20%23math%20OR%20%23Mathematics%20OR%20%23CategoryTheory%20OR%20%23Logic%20OR%20%23RDF%20OR%20%23SemWeb%20OR%20%23scala%20OR%20%23Agda%20OR%20%23FP%20OR%20%23SemanticWeb%20OR%20%23topos%20OR%20%23ScalaJ...
pedja · 156w
our search engine supports disjunction (OR) operator in query string. you can use something like this to search for multiple terms or tags: #scala OR #math OR has to be upper-case. here is the link ...
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Is there a limit to the length of the queries? I have the following in my settings
"Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp OR #Cognitive OR #CognitiveScience OR #Psycholog" but when I query "#psychology" all alone I get a lot more answers on that topic than in the combined query.
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bblfish · 155w
Is there nostr:npub1mkde3807tcyyp2f98re7n7z0va8979atqkfja7avknvwdjg97vpq6ef0jp some filter reducing what is visible in my disjunctive query? For example with the query from the settings: "Search: #maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #F...
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It looks like in #damus one can follow a hash tag. Damus remembers these. But I can’t find a place where I can edit them or only see content with those tags - to see how lively a tag is.
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bblfish · 156w
I mean it would be good to be able to see the disjunctions of all the posts with tags and only the posts with tags I follow, as in #primal. I am trying to understand if I am actually capturing all the posts with those tags or perhaps missing some due to a social network filter perhaps… nostr:note...
bblfish · 156w
Great! In Settings > Home Feed of the primal.net web app, I set the following home page search term "#maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda...
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I also tried the search without the # but that does not give any relevant results.

"Search: maths OR math OR Mathematics OR CategoryTheory OR Logic OR RDF OR SemWeb OR scala OR Agda OR #FP OR SemanticWeb OR topos OR ScalaJS OR Java OR W3C OR WebScience OR hyperApp"
pedja · 156w
our search engine supports disjunction (OR) operator in query string. you can use something like this to search for multiple terms or tags: #scala OR #math OR has to be upper-case. here is the link ...
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Great! In Settings > Home Feed of the primal.net web app, I set the following home page search term
"#maths OR #math OR #Mathematics OR #CategoryTheory OR #Logic OR #RDF OR #SemWeb OR #scala OR #Agda OR #FP OR #SemanticWeb OR #topos OR #ScalaJS OR #Java OR #www OR #W3C OR #WebScience OR #hyperApp"
That gives a page of good results with an average of 7 a day.
That is perhaps good to help me get back to work.
Scrolling through those results, I found the following note on the symbol for OR .
Perhaps I'll put another set of political terms to get a more controversy laden feed of results I guess something like #Trans or #RFKJr OR ...
https://primal.net/e/note16srqcvjzugl2ysnwm3kxpd8sdpqkdqk7df4r8q4w950pz466n4rqquqhmh
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bblfish · 156w
I also tried the search without the # but that does not give any relevant results. "Search: maths OR math OR Mathematics OR CategoryTheory OR Logic OR RDF OR SemWeb OR scala OR Agda OR #FP OR SemanticWeb OR topos OR ScalaJS OR Java OR W3C OR WebScience OR hyperApp"
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It would help if, on @primal and other #nostrclients, one could have a feed of a disjunction of one's favorite search terms or #tags. I have quite a wide variety of topics that are moving quietly herel, with perhaps 1 post a day for e.g. #scala or #math, but if I could put them all together, I would, I think have a pretty interesting home page.
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pedja · 156w
our search engine supports disjunction (OR) operator in query string. you can use something like this to search for multiple terms or tags: #scala OR #math OR has to be upper-case. here is the link to search example: https://primal.net/search/%23scala%20OR%20%23math
Karnage · 157w
Biggest complaints: - Bitcoin echo chamber / not enough variety of content - Difficult to use (my guess is these people have only tried it once 8 months ago lol..) - Feeds not busy enough - Toxic to w...
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Speaking as someone who just came to the platform, I could not tell initially if there were a lot of people here or just very few. I did not want to follow all the people that were suggested to me in part because they all seemed overly bitcoin related. (I quite like Lightning btw, so one can slowly be converted :-)

But then not having followed a lot of people, my client was filtering the topics such as #scala. It took me some time to work out that I had to open the the filter on one client from close social network to the extended one (can’t remember quite which web client that was now) to see anything at all.

Then with the extended network set it still does not seem to be a lot of discussion on feeds like #scala or #RDF, well even less than on Mastodon which was not very busy either. So it helped when I worked out to add mostr.pub . Though I think tweets from there should be highlighted differently.

On an open social network one has to be able to see what the intermediary friends of friends are that led one to see a specific post, if only so that one remove some intermediaries that lead to too much spam, but also to understand how people are related.

I think whatever could help foster discussions would help people build communities more quickly.
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An Alien's Angst · 159w
She is also Ken's beard.