C. Scott Ananian (he/him) (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Short answer: no. :) Longer answer: you can search your instance, which will include everything you follow and anyone else on your instance follows. *And* you can manually go to a different instance and search there, which will similarly include anything which anyone on that instance follows. For a large instance that will be pretty comprehensive. You might logically conclude from this that it wouldn't be hard to build a service which did this on "all known instances" and would therefore provide a global search, but there has been extremely strong pushback from the community against attempts to build such a thing (including quite recently). (Pushback includes banning the IP range of the search bot, unfederating, Drama, etc.) The thinking is that global search mostly benefits trolls who want to jump in on your feeds, and that for "real people" having knowledge of your local community is more important.