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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:19:28 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   like I am less worried about trying to organize and index the world's information and more worried about trying to tease the right information out of the world at any given moment because some information has a pretty short shelf life and some almost eternal and it seems like we'd be better at this stuff if we hadn't outsourced it all to corporate crawlers twenty years ago

   1. Jamey Sharp (jamey@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:26:34 EST Jamey Sharp

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      @djsundog I've been thinking for a few years now that indexing/search, in conjunction with chat/e-mail, are going to be the important ways for people to find whatever content they're looking for in the decentralized (mesh or otherwise) future. Globally consistent name systems like DNS can't work without arbiters making essentially arbitrary decisions, but if we can pass around names that are unique but not human-meaningful without breaking usability, that opens so many more options.

   2. generica (generica@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:26:16 EST generica

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      @djsundog

      Agreed. Librarians know these things.

      1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:30:06 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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         @generica i am a huge fan of librarians! i will follow almost any account I see that has "librarian" in their profile:)

   3. Hairy Larry (hairylarry@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 20:09:28 EST Hairy Larry

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      @djsundog

      I enjoy the serendipity search engine where you click around until you find something interesting.