Indexing all posts, etc is quite a lot to handle, so I wanted to start small and just focus on video search. I've started indexing videos from Peertube and other video websites. (Even YouTube but this could be removed to just focus on independent sites)

I know Peertube has their own search engine for videos. I will be reaching out to them. Compared to my site I'm planning it'll have other video sources and be easier to use.

So that leads to feedback from you guys.

What do you think about indexing videos posted on the fediverse and other independent platforms?
Are there similar services?
Am I just wasting my time?

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

I disagree. Post privacy sure, but the internet is by definition public. Anything you put out there can be used for pretty much everything, the original rules of the internet apply. I'd be happy to see an easy opt out on the engine to remove yourself, but if everything is opt in it'll never get off the ground.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

As the fediverse is almost exclusively run by volunteers that are paying server bills and being admins, I could see some larger instances not taking kindly to this, especially depending on how much stress it would be putting on some already at capacity servers.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How much bandwidth do you suppose a crawler would use? I'd guess very little

[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

It will be very little if not downloading full html pages.

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