@pooterheadpharm@mastodon.energy
Post #2924922
2022-12-18 19:37 UTC
@eloquence@social.coop Why would search deliberately suck? I see that as a weakness.
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@eloquence@social.coop 2022-12-18 19:39
@pooterheadpharm@mastodon.energy There's a lot of concern about search being used as a way to target individuals who say certain things. So for example, if I say "trans rights are human rights", a transphobic harasser might have a search running on that phrase to find folks to target. Hence the bias towards using hashtags to make posts discoverable if and when you want them to be. I have mixed feelings about the current approach but I think any iteration will have to take that concern into account.