Hashtag Federation
At FOSDEM we had a good conversation about hashtag federation. Here's a dump of my notes regarding centralized service and DHT based approach
Centralized:
- Treat hashtag federation like subscribing to a relay
- Relays send all AP messages right now
- New posts are always created with a Note
- We could support subscribing to an actor just like a relay,
https://aggregator.com/tags/hashtag
- We could also use localhost service to do a relay proxy(?) for us, and then be able to plug in DHT later when that's fleshed out
Decentralized:
- Localhost service would provide DHT capabilities
- Actor would be
https://localhost/tags/hashtagname
- Announce DHT capability with
nodeinfo