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@silverpill care to elaborate?

What is wrong with those things existing as auxiliary services?

@mariusor

None of those things need an external provider.

There is also an EEE aspect of it, because they use custom API instead of ActivityPub.

@silverpill @mariusor what about cross-instance (opt in) Search? That kind of does need to be an external service, no?

@dmitri @mariusor Server operators who want to provide data can host a relay (for example, Pleroma has a built-in one). People who want to access that data (for whatever purpose) can subscribe to those relays.

@dmitri the way I understood what
@silverpill is saying is that if those are part of the same server ... they're not "auxiliary".

@mariusor @dmitri Yes, a built-in relay. Direct communication between servers, 100% ActivityPub