It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.

It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.

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    What does ‘All’ mean to you?

    In this context it means all posts which are stored on the server. And only things are stored which people subscribed to.

    There are good reasons why the protocol has been desihned like that, if you’re interested then you can find out about it. If not, reddit still exists for people who like it more.

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      All means all. If it isn’t actually All (it isn’t) then it should be called something else.

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        But it is all, just not the all you think, it’s all things the server is aware of, not all things in the universe.

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          This is not obvious to anyone who doesn’t have some understanding of how networking and federation work, which is most people. Especially if we’re talking about users who have only ever experienced centralized platforms.

          It should be called “Known Network” or something more transparent that doesn’t require an explanation of indexing

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              It’s an understandable response. They were previously in a position where this was such an obvious concept that it didn’t merit any thought, and now they are required to have an understanding of networking and federation in order to understand how well actually this a fundamental part of how distributed systems work and isn’t technically a bug.

              From their perspective this seems like a fairly straightforward problem. Obviously (to us) it’s not, but the threshold for the fediverse shouldn’t be that you deeply understand federation if there’s ever going to be meaningful adoption.

              As an aside, your personal domain is timing out.

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                Damn, thanks, I have a bad implementation of getting Twitter avatars and now that Twitter redirects everything which is not logged in my implementation goes into redirect hell every time someone opens a page with a Twitter comment. Perhaps I’ll find the time tonight to look for a fix.

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                  It seems I was able to fix it by adding curl.max_redirects = 3 to my caching code. No idea why it would hang without it because it gets the image from Twitter just fine now too.

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          Uh… no it’s not.

          I’m sorry, but what you’re doing is actively making this service harder to use by suggesting that ‘all’ should only mean ‘the communities other community members have subscribed to that contain that string.’

          Gee, fediverse design strikes again. Sorry, it has to be said. It really does.

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            The Internet also has all information made available to it, not all information that is in the universe. Same as the fediverse users, internet users rely on search engines to find what they are looking for.

            When all would mean all available in fediverse you would get issues:

            • even the smallest instance would explode like lemmy.world
            • to much choice makes people freeze up
            • you’d get reddit/facebook all over again. (with the required corporate mess as you need to play loads of employers to support the environment to supply the intel to the bubble that wants it)

            It’s to the user to search what he wants to see. I for one have 3 ‘main’ accounts (world, ml and studio) and I subscribe to specific communities for each account (ml for development, studio for music related, world for ‘rest’) and each one I open the feed with subscribed. I’m totally not interested in all, to much junk (even on Lemmy).

            To freely quote: All, you want all? You can’t handle all. ;)

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              I cannot believe you’re making this argument.

              I’m sorry, I can, and it’s a big reason why fediverse design has a lot of progress to make.

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                  🥱

                  Calm down buddy. Your analogy has no water and you’re clearly fueled by emotion.

                  Take a step back, breath some fresh air, then come back when you’re ready to discuss civilly. Right now you’ve said nothing of substance.

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      ‘All’ to me means “”“all”“” the servers my instance can connect to that contain that string.

      It’s a very simple concept.

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        Resource wise, it makes sense to only retrieve content the users of the instance are interested in. Think about all the nsfw communities popping on lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, as well as all the content in languages your users don’t speak.

        Some instances are multilingual, so you don’t want to defederate from them (and defederation shouldn’t really be used in this context anyway), but retrieving 50% of content none of your users is ever going to read seems like a waste.

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          Yeah. And I’m interested in retrieving all of the servers my instance is connected to that contain a string in that community name.

          Why is this so hard to get across to you?

          Why don’t you have a solution for how server members find communities on different servers in the first place? Are you really defending relying on third-party services and ‘other means’ to find communities on different servers?

          I think that’s really bad design and a testament to why the fediverse is inaccessible to the general public.

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        It’s just not very simple, quite the contrary, you would need to have a server park like reddit has it to store everuthing on every instance, the databases would be so big that you would need specialosts running just the database servers.

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          Oh yes, it really is.

          The implementation may not be easy, but the concept is very simple.

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      The word “all” fundamentally means everything? By calling it “all” they are really doing a disservice to everyone who, gasp, assumes “all” means “all” when it really means “local communities and local user foreign subscriptions”. I don’t know what they should call it, but redefining the words “all” to be “not all” is super confusing, especially for users new to lemmy.