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I keep feeling frustrated as valuable knowledge for my different hobbies over the last years became siloed away in corporate social media. I believe wikis could be a way out, but can we have decentralized, federated wiki software that can kind of talk among each other?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

not sure wikis need that, though a federated internet search engine would be a great idea. then wikis, instances, everything could be available similar to google. Maybe even provide some kind of lookup for search systems like google.

[–] Qvest 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think what you’re suggesting already exists. Take a look at SearXNG: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#searxng

[–] crashex 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there an explanation for stupid of how SearXNG works? I tried it for a while after getting too frustrated with the Google enshittification, but couldn't get results really.

[–] jgkawell 5 points 2 years ago

It's considered a meta search engine. Basically it queries a bunch of different search engines at once and then aggregates the results.

[–] deepdive 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Searxng is a must have :) [email protected] if you have any question on how to self host your instance.

The other solution is to use public searxng instances !

[–] crashex 1 points 2 years ago

Self hosting at home is out of the question. I use an antenna to suck enough internet out of the air for daily needs in my remote valley. So I have started a small wiki farm on my webspace (is that indeed the same a tech person calls a VPN?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm looking for something more federated like IPFS/Lemmy where I can run an indexing node that crawls the systems my group cares about and federates the dataset out.

[–] crashex 2 points 2 years ago

I would want, for example, be capable of easily linking between the info for a particular plant in my botany wiki and my herbalism wiki. But I don't want to overwhelm the botany wiki contributor with a heavy list of medical input fields when he enters a new article.