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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 20:25:16 JST silverpill

   For every complex problem in the field of decentralized network engineering, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong:

   Auxiliary Service Providers

   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:48:19 JST silverpill

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     • marius

     @mariusor

     None of those things need an external provider.

     There is also an EEE aspect of it, because they use custom API instead of ActivityPub.

   • marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 21:48:20 JST marius

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     @silverpill care to elaborate?

     What is wrong with those things existing as auxiliary services?

   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 02:02:24 JST silverpill

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     • marius
     • Dmitri | 🇺🇦

     @dmitri @mariusor Server operators who want to provide data can host a relay (for example, Pleroma has a built-in one). People who want to access that data (for whatever purpose) can subscribe to those relays.

   • Dmitri | 🇺🇦 (dmitri@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 02:02:25 JST Dmitri | 🇺🇦

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     • marius

     @silverpill @mariusor what about cross-instance (opt in) Search? That kind of does need to be an external service, no?

   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:33:20 JST silverpill

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     • marius
     • Dmitri | 🇺🇦

     @mariusor @dmitri Yes, a built-in relay. Direct communication between servers, 100% ActivityPub

   • marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:33:21 JST marius

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     • Dmitri | 🇺🇦

     @dmitri the way I understood what
     @silverpill is saying is that if those are part of the same server ... they're not "auxiliary".

   • Dmitri | 🇺🇦 (dmitri@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:33:22 JST Dmitri | 🇺🇦

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     • marius

     @silverpill @mariusor wait, but that relay you're describing - that's an auxiliary service