Red ScottWhat's the consensus on search being restricted to usernames and hashtags? Is this something that's necessary to reduce harassment? Without a broader text search finding people with common interests is difficult and tedious
Daniil Kharms 👻@red I think the search will - as it must - evolve. Basically useless now.
@TimeSnow that's my initial thought but then I'm not usually targeted for harassment. Seems like there's some useful middle ground such as being able to search "public" tweets but not "unlisted" ones
@red I'm sure it will evolve... I can't pretend to know how, but it can't stay useless as it is just too important a feature to be permanently missing.
@TimeSnow if communities decide it's crucial to safety and can see the culture using hashtags more thoroughly. I like the idea of per-instance policy though
HedgeMage@red I wish it were a per-instance setting. I understand that some users have concerns, but would prefer to be on an instance that was full-text-searchable.
@HedgeMage makes sense!
Jacob Farkas@red I feel like federation would be a better solution to finding common interests. Just follow the public timeline on a server for a specific topic. I don't want to deal with a mess of accounts for each topic though, so they need a solution there.
@Farktonix there's a lot to like about topic specific servers, Though it feels like a conceptual hard sell for non-techies
@red Yeah, it's a hard sell for anyone. Let's move this thread to mastodon.meta.
Drewry@red I agree that it should be much clearer which instance a user comes from. It'd be nice if it were easier to reply or boost messages from profiles too. Like if I go to a profile page, I can't click the toots, I have to find the user in my own home page then find the tweet in there, then I can respond or boost or whatever. I don't mind that you can't edit, per se, but it'd be nice to be able to un-boost. It's -almost there- and I'm willing to wait around, but non-techs?