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Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That’s pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn’t use that.
And I’m saying you can encounter the same issue of not finding a post whether you save it or not. If you suggest saving content to reference later, there also needs to be a way to search within those saved posts. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same problem as not being able to find it without having saved it.
You would need to be able to search saved posts which would also be useful, but not nearly as much.
Is there a more efficient way to scrape and download all stories from a forum than my current multi-step process?
I’m currently using a pagination, link extraction, and Python filtering process before feeding links to fichub-cli to download all stories from a specific forum. The workflow is detailed in this post: https://piefed.zip/post/1151173 . Looking for a more streamlined, possibly one-command solution that could crawl the forum, extract thread links, and download them automatically. Any suggestions?
What Android app would you recommend for PieFed? Question
Tried Connect since I used it for Lemmy, but no luck, keeps giving me “The page your browser tried to load could not be found” error when I try to log in.
How to do a collaborative API cache?
I’m looking for advice on building a collaborative caching system for APIs with strict rate limits that automatically commits updates to Git, allowing multiple users to share the scraping load and reduce server strain. The idea is to maintain a local dataset where each piece of data has a timestamp, and when anyone runs the script, it only fetches records older than a configurable threshold from the API, while serving everything else from the local cache. After fetching new data, the script would automatically commit changes to a shared Git repository, so subsequent users benefit from the updated cache without hitting the server. This way, the same task that would take days for one person could be completed in seconds by the next. Has anyone built something like this or know of existing tools/frameworks that support automated Git commits for collaborative data collection with timestamp-based incremental updates?
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Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That’s pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn’t use that.
And I’m saying you can encounter the same issue of not finding a post whether you save it or not. If you suggest saving content to reference later, there also needs to be a way to search within those saved posts. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same problem as not being able to find it without having saved it.
You would need to be able to search saved posts which would also be useful, but not nearly as much.
Searching for users and posts from a user
I think that’s some important missing functionality.