@Migueldeicaza @filippo

A good portion of my Twitter usage was searching my old posts too.

Me: *Says something that is the logical and inevitable outcome of systemic racism in the US.*

Stranger: You're wrong! That won't happen, because racism isn't as bad as you think!

Me: OK. I don't argue with y'all. I say what I say, then I collect my receipts later.

Time passes... racist thing happens.

Me: 🔮🧙🏿‍♂️ #Blackstradamus is undefeated! [link to old tweet]

@mekkaokereke @Migueldeicaza @filippo A lot of people should instead think “racism is worse than what *I* am experiencing”.

As far as search goes, if it’s your own feed, I’m assuming one could pull the data down via activity feed and throw it into a local database.

Yes, 100% not what a normal user would do. But it proves the concept.

But what I’m curious of is what people use search for (since I don’t), except finding their own toots.

@breadbin @Migueldeicaza @filippo

Great question! Here's a concrete example, also involving racism:

Several Black tech folks with large followings including me, received harassment and death threats within our 1st few weeks of being on Mastodon.

Without looking at my pinned posts, try and find any evidence of our experiences around this topic.

On Twitter, you could just search. On here, that information is almost completely undiscoverable.