Posted your article. I think it may do better than you think

Here's their discussion of the topic https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/682757

But also give venture bros your money.

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. All that to say this isn't necessarily the end of the line.

There's also !peertube@lemmy.ml for dedicated discussion.

Looks like there is !dnd_lfg@lemmy.world but I feel like there's not enough traction over there yet to be super useful. Maybe a matrix chat would be a good thing to put together?

Gotcha. I'll also crosspost this over there as well

I would love to see relatively open community registration on these. I'm really inspired by lemdro.id and really like all the little subcommunities.

Sad that I don't see anybody excited about this in the comments. This is obviously amazing and I will consider the world better for it.

Further context from the Threads privacy policy.

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No they would associate your boosts and likes from your fedi accounts to existing known (some Facebook or Instagram based) ad profiles. Here's an article about that as a practice: here. That info would then be used in pretty much every location that you already see targeted ads, folding you into the existing Meta ad machine without you ever agreeing to a TOS or making an account.

The version I've always heard is "when somebody tells you who they are, believe 'em".