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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Right, it would be an initial hit but if the bot was properly built it wouldn't need to do full reindexing very often. I'm no expert but I think it could be done in a way that there is no noticeable spike in traffic or anything
That's the thing, it would need to be done in chunks and have its revisits scheduled if you want to do a complete indexing of an instance. And for a large instance that's a lot of DB thrashing if you aren't spacing that out, or just sampling like "top 10 posts" or something, but that kind of data is going to make a useless search engine depending on the goal of the search engine. If you wanted to just catalog the daily top posts of the fediverse that might work, but if you want to catalog everything it's going to take a lot of resources and a long time to make sure you're not hammering people's servers.