I get that searching can be a bit finicky sometimes but doesn't typing in a full username of a user you want to search for usually do the job?
That part about shutting down is something that https://joinmastodon.org/covenant tries to help with, where advance notice should be given and multiple people should have access to administrative actions. At least if the server has to shut down the users are given enough time to look at another server.
If you would like for your own posts to be reachable by the search system, all you have to do is go to Preferences > Public Profile > Privacy and Reach. Once there, check the box that says Include Public Posts in Search Engines.
I'm happy that this is opt-in for users, though something that would be good to know is how users on other instances (as well as platforms like Lemmy, Kbin, Misskey, etc.) are handled. I guess the search system would not handle these users?
It would attract the karma farming bots that reddit has. Any website that has a privilege system causes accounts with more privilidges to be worth more to buyers.
Kbin already provides feeds at the bottom of the page. For example, this magazine's is at https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=kbinMeta
I tried finding information on what indexer they are using. Are they using their own?
Edit: says this in the readme:
The commoncrawl organization for crawling the web and making the dataset readily available. Even though we have our own crawler now, commoncrawl has been a huge help in the early stages of development.
To copy and paste my comment from another thread regarding down votes:
I never really saw the point of downvotes/reduces on Lemmy and Kbin. There isn't an equivalent of those actions on other Fediverse projects (except if you count reactions on Pleroma) and it causes problems like what you have described [in the thread the OP was describing being downvote bombed through no fault of their own].
I use the kbin enhancement script's option to hide the reduce button because I have no reason to touch it.Reddit has downvotes as a means of rating down content that doesn't contribute to the discussion or is spammy, but it tends to be used as a lazy "I disagree" button that attracts bandwaggoning. Why put in the effort to explain why you disagree with something when you can just hit the down arrow and be done?
I do not know what the intended purpose of downvotes/reduces is here on Kbin. Is it a lazy disagree button or is it like what Reddit intends where comments and posts that don't contribute should be downvoted?
Hopefully Kbin and Lemmy get this as a feature. Pleroma has it and it works with preventing your profile from being indexed.
What would be nice too is if remote profiles were prevented from being indexed too, both so search results aren't spammed with the same profile and for privacy reasons.
I have noticed for the past week or so it can sometimes take a long time for a page to load. I don't get an error code but it can sometimes take about 10-15 seconds.
8GB of RAM for KDE Plasma should be more than enough. I'd say starting at 4GB and below that you'd run into problems. I'm saying this as somebody that has Firefox with several tabs, Libreoffice, two heavy electron apps, an email client and other miscellaneous bits and bobs open while only using just under 6GB of RAM.
How is that API still up after this has happened?
There is Funkwhale that you can use for self-publishing music. You can also upload your music library privately to listen to remotely.