John

agreed with the non-ads route. Kudos to you :)

oh, 3 days is not that bad. I thought it might take you several months of continuous, back breaking work LOL. I can wait 3 days standing on my head (manner of speaking).

And yeah, I was actually interested in scraping posts / articles for keywords that I can market on. But, no hurry! One step at a time and we will eventually get there :)

If you manage to keep your little software updated and relevant - and as Mastodon grows bigger (I’m thinking of getting 100s of millions of people using it across all instances) - you will have a goose that lays golden eggs. It will be a real value for marketers, you could probably charge $100s per month for its usage but I obviously don’t recommend it because then I’d be left out cause I don’t have that kind of money yet :p

Anyway, keep up the good work! I’ll give your improved search engine a new try in 3 days… or 7… or however long it takes…

I don’t get it… Where am I going to get the results from that I should manually put in if the search engine doesn’t let me search anything to begin with??

Also, any rough estimate of when the crawler will be usable?

um, this is not like google, right? I just tried to search for something, but I didn’t get any result, so I’m not sure how to use this…

But then again, I just joined this mastodon / fediverse / activitypub weirdness that I never heard of before, so I’m still trying to wrap my head around how all of this works. The worst part is that I’m not a tech-savvy guy, so it’s even harder for me to understand what the hell I’m doing LOL

But, hey! At least - hopefully - we get rid of the twitter, fb, youtube, google monopolies cause I’ve had enough with these greedy giants. Mere mortals like myself can’t made a dime using their services, but mass spammers and big budget sharks break the bank every day.

So anyway, how do I use your search engine to find specific content across the entire fediverse (I believe that this is what all these websites like mastodon and lemmy are called like, right?)