FYI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
But there should also be a separate endpoint to get an auth token. (I don’t remember it off the top of my head). Then your bot should store that somewhere and send it as the auth parameter in every request.
Fair enough. Sometimes you can’t help but go down these rabbit holes though.
How do you account for the duplicate Riker in TNG? Who’s the real one and where did the extra matter come from then to assemble William vs Tom?
(It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that episode so I don’t remember if they covered that but on-screen)
A similar question could be raised for the Rascals episode…
Yes but what if you search and find a post that doesn’t exist on your home instance? You’d be taken to a 404 page and can’t do anything.
But I’ve got an issue on GitHub for this. And just raised a PR on Lemmy to support the changes I need for this. But a reminder, once you can search all instances you may encounter 404s opening the posts that you find.
You can always try constructing the URL manually. I know this sucks, but it might be a workaround.
https://lemmy.ml/c/songaweek@lemmy.world
Long story short you just have to go to lemmy.ml and then add /c/ followed by the community name @ the instance it belongs to.
You can do advanced filters on posts or communities. Feel free to provide feedback as well. I’m still working on the order of the results, etc…
Thank for sharing the results.
I can say one of the most requested features I keep getting requests for is a global search as well. I’m just blocked by a bug in Lemmy at the moment.
A tool to see better recommendations on who to follow could be interesting as well. I’ve recently added a new feature that allows for users to search communities (on Lemmy and Kbin) about what posts are actually talking about. I wonder if something similar could be built for users…
But again thanks for sharing.
Anyway I think we can build a search engine that can respect their wishes and keep them out of the index.
I’d love to hear your ideas on this. At least initially I don’t see a way to build a crawler that can ignore select individuals. But I haven’t really dug into the Mastodon APIs just yet.
I don’t run my own instance, at least not publicly, but I’m very curious in the answers to some of those questions and I don’t want to skew your results by voting.
As I’m already working on on search engine, that’s already public for Lemmy but I hope to add Mastodon in the future. So far many Mastodon users seem to be very anti-search, so I’m curious of your results.
Let’s say I just sent a request from my non-existent server with my user id…
Who or what is going to send this request if not some server that implements ActivityPub? This could be a Lemmy or Mastodon or Kbin instance… Or anything else that implements ActivityPub.
…and just every time I wanted to check whether I got replies I would query the other server (which a Lemmy server would do to get notifications about replies or upvotes)
ActivityPub works via pushes. So there’s nothing to query. There HAS to be some server for it to send and store that data.
There are APIs that you can use to post and comment, etc… But there has to be an instance at that domain.
That’s how most of the mobile apps work btw, they just send a network request direct to lemmy.world etc… Saying that iopq wants to create a post with this title and this content…
But there’s no need for your own personal domain name in this scenario, you just need an account on the server that you’re trying to post or comment to.
Not sure if that helps.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/d909f3455ddb89d45f35c78c4ce96bd0896469b1/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L302
If the honeypot is set the request is simply discarded.