Are you aware of https://granary.io/? It may be helpful for implementing your ideas

Discoverablility of what?

How would this help? What is the problem this addresses?

Many of the functions provided by a Mastodon service is split into separate services in the AT Protocol. This means there are instances that just handle an end users data, instances that just handle indexing and streaming out the amalgamated end user data being streamed to the “relay”, there are instances that are just filtering the stream from the indexing relay. so basically the various backend parts are modular with the AT Protocol rather than monolithic as is assumed by the ActivityPub protocol where separation is assumed to be only between the frontend and backend of the service.

Bluesky is probably going to capture more of that than Mastodon. But threads is similarly struggling to develop it as well and they have very low barrier for new signups for anyone with a Facebook or Instagram account.

Many people are most interested in profit as their only KPI and mastodon puts up a lot of hurdles for those people.

Anything that you’re not willing and able to keep financially sustained yet rely upon will likely be used against you by someone with more resources. This is why groups like Fosstodon, Beehaw, and Fedihosting Foundation stand out in these spaces. They are both transparent and financially sustainable. But most of that sustainability relies on unpaid volunteer labor.

Bluesky has no documentation for running a relay (indexing node). It doesn’t seem like they intend to have any documentation on it any time soon. But it is possible to set one up yourself. I don’t know anyone that has done so.

I’ve been using mojeek and ddg, but I’ve been considering setting up SearXNG on a server.

Are you talking about blusky’s indexer?

Not yet

You can even question if the compiled version running on an instano is the same as the version posted to GitHub. There’s no way to even check what’s running on the server you don’t have access to.

Trust is necessary at some level if your going to participate on any hosted or federated service as you pointed out.

They’re purposely disruptive to the community, they are not part of the community.

By simply using the default mbin UI and clicking on two menu options for any particular post or comment.

I agree with just about everything you said, except that it won’t be a technical can of worms to implement the change according to the devs.

mbin users can see that right now.

I did read it.

Not at all what I wrote.

That’s just how federation works out in every federated service ever.

This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.