There's obviously going to be some amazing Fediverse search engine, right? Full-text search, graph analysis, information spreading analysis, etc. Right? We're not actually expecting everyone to neatly hashtag their posts like we're all dedicated librarians?
(Not knocking librarians, they rock... they're just rare.)
There are a *lot* of long-time Mastodonians engaged in keeping this joint running who will fight to the last ditch and beyond against anyone who tries to introduce undiscriminating general-purpose full-text search.
So there may be something, but “obviously” doesn’t apply.
See: Design Decisions¹ and Full-text search²
¹ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/
² https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/elasticsearch/
Also, scroll through a few screenfuls starting a https://techhub.social/@cloy/109598814392511612 - keep scrolling.
@timbray @MattHodges @jpanzer @ben
That thread will teach the next guy not to ask for feedback.
@WomanCorn @timbray @MattHodges @jpanzer @ben Uh, sure. The “next guy” has already seen the feedback from reading the thread and is actively choosing to ignore it.
@counteractor @timbray @MattHodges @jpanzer @ben
When the "feedback" consisted of 9:1 rudeness:explanation, well, people might just take away the wrong thing.
It's a bad communication strategy that doesn't actually protect the things they want to protect, but does give a short-term feeling of righteousness.
@WomanCorn @timbray @MattHodges @jpanzer @ben Hey now, you’re not giving people enough credit. I’m sure that anyone can understand that people would be upset after reading that thread if they ended up going ahead without asking for feedback the second time. In which case… why do it? 🤔