Well I wouldn't disagree with out of hand but I would want to see your research on that.
LovableSidekick
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Frequent thrift shopper, I've noticed prices going so high I wonder if they know what "thrift store" means anymore.
Great news - the fewer Trumpers who reproduce, the better.
What if search itself were a federated function? Although I'm a software dev I really don't know much about the mechanics of large-scale search engines such as Google, but I know their server farms somehow share the load of performing searches and maintaining whatever database they maintain to optimize searching. Seems like the fediverse could do search in a similar way. I'm just saying your critique of the idea, although well thought out, seems like a critique of a particular strategy. It's not obvious to me that the very idea of federated search is outlandish.