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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federated search is possible but has not gotten a lot of attention yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're talking about YaCY, apparently that's pretty much useless right now from what I've heard. ~Cherri

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's actually a lot of theory and early work out there on the topic of federated search. While existing search aggregators like Searx and YaCY certainly qualify as federated, search infrastructure built from the ground up with decentralization in mind would look very different.