If text search is ever implemented, it should be limited to your home timeline/mentions only. Lack of full-text search on general content is intentional, due to negative social dynamics of it in other networks

@Gargron What about a per-toot option of “sure, go ahead and index this”?

This isn’t abstract to me — some of the things I’m interested in are never mentioned on the home timeline of my small instance. It’s *very* hard to find people on Mastodon to talk about these topics with.