MatunosI will stop wishing for #QuoteReplies on Mastodon if we could get (the much more complicated and expensive, I'm sure) full text search instead.
✨buff dog himbo✨@matunos consider this: no to both :)
@itsmeholland what's the point in considering the status quo?
@matunos what status quo lol? Twitter is the status quo. We've seen what quote tweets & full text search can do for a social media platform & the answer is not much while having several drawbacks. It's like this on purpose. No full text search means more privacy & less access for people trying to be malicious without restricting visibility, & no QTs promotes actual conversations instead of endless resharing & shouting your 2cents into the void. The benefits just outweigh the inconvenience.
@itsmeholland no full text search also makes it's very difficult to find discussion about anything that isn't in your own feed and which you happened to catch when it showed up there, or which someone decided to hashtag just so to latch. if there was full search, unlisted posts should probably not be indexed, to protect privacy concerns.
@matunos does it make it really difficult? Or does it just make it slightly more difficult? Because I have basically no issues finding conversations I want to be involved in just looking through my local & federated feeds & searching hashtags. & my posts have had much more reach than any other social media here. When it comes down to it I just don't need to know absolutely everything everyone is saying about a topic at all times. There's only so much we can reasonably participate in anyway.