Ivory for Mastodon VS Annoy

> indie-dev-that-does-not-want-to-monetize-friendly Noting is "I need to spend a significunt chunk of my time for no renumeration"-friendly. And yet there are numerous free, or pay-less-than-a-cup-of-coffee clients for many things and services, whether those are open or closed, free or paid (Ivory for Mastodon https://tapbots.com/ivory/ and Wikipedia's app come to mind). Thanks for the tip for Siskin and Monal!... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

You might be interested to know the Tweetbot people made an app for Mastodon: https://tapbots.com/ivory/ https://tapbots.social/@ivory. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

For example, the twitter "equivalent" on the fediverse -- mastodon -- recently got the developer of what was widely considered the best twitter client pivoting their work after Twitter's API changes that spez is emulating (see: Ivory). Source: 11 months ago

For iOS, there's Ivory but it's unfortunately not free. Ivory is the one I'm using and it's pretty good. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

I've been very happy with Ivory: https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end of it. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

The focus on the top 10 in vector search is a product of wanting to prove value over keyword search. Keyword search is going to miss some conceptual matches. You can try to work around that with tokenization and complex queries with all variations but it's not easy. Vector search isn't all that new a concept. For example, the annoy library (https://github.com/spotify/annoy), an open source embeddings database. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

If you want to go larger you could still use some simple setup in conjunction with faiss, annoy or hnsw. Source: 10 months ago

I then use annoy to compare them. Annoy can use different measures for distance, like cosine, euclidean and more. Source: 11 months ago

Yes you can do this for equality predicates if your row groups are sorted . This blog post (that I didn't write) might add more color. You can't do this for any kind of text searching. If you need to do this with file based storage I'd recommend using a vector based text search and utilize a ANN index library like Annoy. Source: 11 months ago

If you need large scale (1000+ dimension, millions+ source points, >1000 queries per second) and accept imperfect results / approximate nearest neighbors, then other people have already mentioned some of the best libraries (FAISS, Annoy). Source: 12 months ago