Post #2794724

2022-11-06 05:43 UTC

@busesarecoolactually@toot.community you can search for hashtags and people, not on arbitrary content. It’s a deliberate choice to stop topic brigading. Also you can only search what your instance has seen, not the whole fediverse.

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@nzlemming@mastodon.nz 2022-11-06 10:55

@sitharus@cloudisland.nz @busesarecoolactually@toot.community There's no full-text search, and that's a lot like AltaVista used to be - subject based and looking for information, not looking for something you can use against someone.

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@GirtBySea@aus.social 2022-11-06 15:20

@sitharus@cloudisland.nz @busesarecoolactually@toot.community What's topic brigading? Sacrificing utility of global search, being able to find who's saying what about what you're interested in, without writer having to declare what is findable by tagging, is a hugely backward step, IMHO Someone will no doubt make a widget to do the job. Early days for interface I hope, different skins will turn up. They'd be smart to make one that looks like Twitter, with most of screen devoted to messages. Dock will autohide I hope, it takes up so much real estate.

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@vapid@mastodon.nu 2022-11-06 20:11

@sitharus@cloudisland.nz Does that mean the amount of results I get when searching hashtags depends on the size of my instance?

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