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so i mentioned working on a library for working with activitypub servers a few days ago and writing it has been going well so i figured i’d share what it is and where it’s at.

the library is called (tentatively) “activitysearch” and it operates around the model of a single actor. an actor has an associated database (pouchdb) where it stores any data it downloads about the actor — but it need’s that actor’s permission to get the necessary creds. it is not a tool for checking out other people on the fediverse. it is a tool for working with your own data.

the data it downloads is then indexed so you can make queries against it without hitting the network, queries like, “who am i following whose instance has disappeared?” or “where’s that toot i fav’d about crows?” i have a rudimentary text-search algorithm i use to build a search index but it’s not really professional-grade like lucene, just something useful enough for general purposes.