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2aliases:
3 - Community Search Engines
4tags:
5 - search
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7Community Search Engine is the label for a set of approaches to interconnect communities.
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9These communities are formed by:
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11* Events such as conferences
12* Digital spaces, such as a Discord server
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14These are often communities of interest, but can also considered to be trust relationships: if you are connected to a group of people you may extend trust to other recommendations they make.
15## Reading
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17[[Dark Forest and Cozy Web]]: communities are moving to cozy web spaces, and/or have need for members only content. The open internet has degraded search incentivized by click throughs to show ads, and commercial social platforms
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19[[Brazilianization of the Internet]]: forming communities, which can be considered a kind of commons, do exclude or make [[cozyweb]] spaces. Does this cause a kind of elitism, and/or further deteriorate public spaces?
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21[[How Algolia uses Electron to improve internal productivity]]: I’m still inspired by this description of Algolia implementing company wide search across internal tools, with desktop integration. This should be a tool for organizations of all kinds.
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23## Local
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25I applied to [[SoP 2024 Application]] with some ideas around this that has some longer writing.
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27Part of community is "flow" ([[Stock and Flow]]) and [[Proto Apps]] is how I think social graphs / communities / flows of information form.
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29[[Open Social Protocols]] is what are part of the building blocks for all of this.
30## Tools
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32[[Lieu]] is an example of some code that helps build community search engines and webrings.