Post #201691

@raffomania@mstdn.io - I'm generally interested in what I see as the 'static' side of the Fediverse, i.e. what you can do if you view your social graph as part of a linked data structure to be queried, rather than as a communication network for ephemeral messages (although I realise that there's overlap between the two). I'm interested in the extent to which existing web technology can be deployed to enable this, especially semantic web ideas - I've already played with this a bit, converting my own social graph and metadata from my ActivityPub feed to RDF so I can use SPARQL to query it. I do feel that distributed search and discovery is important, as that's an area which still seems very centralised and therefore a point of control. I think there will be several components to a solution for this, but recommendations from your social network will surely play a part. Having said this, I'm also very happy to fix bugs or implement features in ties to get started. The tech stack isn't massively aligned to what I'm used to, but I have a good track record of picking new things up quickly. Let me get a personal instance set up and take things from there.