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McPringle / apus

A social wall for conferences with additional features.
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Collect mastodon posts from multiple instances #38

Closed McPringle closed 5 months ago

McPringle commented 5 months ago

Mastodon is based on the ActivityPub protocol for federated networks. Not all posts are available on all instances. The search for posts with a hashtag works only on posts, which are available on the instance executing the search.

To collect more posts with a specific hashtag, Apus should use several mastodon instances and merge all returned posts together (check for a unique ID). Technically, the network requests should be parallelized. That could be a good use of virtual threads.

McPringle commented 5 months ago

Due to the use of relays it is no longer necessary.