Prodromou: Adopt a pump.io server [LWN.net]

Prodromou: Adopt a pump.io server

Posted Sep 26, 2016 8:36 UTC (Mon) by callegar (guest, #16148)
Parent article: Prodromou: Adopt a pump.io server

I take the occasion of this post to ask a question, out of curiosity. Is there a way to search people across the whole federation of servers in pump.io? Seems one of the strongest selling point of the most popular commercial offerings in the area. Back when I checked, it did not seem to be possible, has this changed?

Prodromou: Adopt a pump.io server

Posted Sep 27, 2016 8:03 UTC (Tue) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link] (1 responses)

To learn about pump.io, it is interesting to read links from https://github.com/pump-io/pump.io/wiki .

For example I've found: Whom to follow: Users listed in the user directory of one of the PPump services, such as https://www.inventati.org/ppump/usuarios/ it allows searching for users.

Prodromou: Adopt a pump.io server

Posted Oct 6, 2016 8:48 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

> Whom to follow: Users listed in the user directory of one of the PPump services

Without being able to search users across all the servers of a federation, I see the ability to find people to follow severely hindered, or - the other way round - the advantage of the federation approach diminished.