@jalefkowit @Canageek @craigmaloney i don't think anyone has the impression it's impossible
but it doesn't have to be impossible for there to be benefit
if it is more of a pain in the ass it will almost certainly happen less often, and that's a good thing
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney Nah. It will happen less often until someone writes a tool for it, then it will be common, and we still won't have full text search.
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney that will be an unfortunate day!
when it comes though i hope i'm well enough to take pleasure from writing a patch that will fuck that tool up~
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney As it has been explained to me, can't be done. Just download the timeline atom feed to your PC then run a search on it there.
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney for now? sure
not hard to change the way that works to make it hostile to an indexer though
probably can detect such an indexer as well
like i said, i hope when the time comes i feel well enough to enjoy the challenge
other instances can do what they will including have fulltext search
but i won't have my instance being indexed for the benefit of anyone but my users i think
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney So you'd have to break federation then, right?
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney mm no, i'm pretty sure it can be avoided
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney Install one if the commend line clients. Log all toots in the federated timeline to disk. Run grep on it?
I'm told it is even easier with atom feeds?
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney if you have a well behaved client or act like a well behaved client you miss all the data from the past and have to process everything at realtime
i think for anyone who wants to be an asshole this is already a pretty serious setback
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney .... Yeah, this the logging to disk. Then once you have a log run grep? What an I missing?