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Kowtowed to the twitter crowd ๐๐ผ
Did they, though? A bunch of other Fediverse platforms have supported this for literally years, to the point that Mastodon was the butt of jokes for breaking basic search functionality.
Having standard search that just works is a huge deal, and helps solve against the decentralized content discovery problem.
Not to mention, it's opt-in by default.
Seems like some of you guys want a secret club and not a proper forum/platform people use in a meaningful way.
There is absolutely a segment of Mastodon users who behave like they do, and tbh I think there should always be small instances, but i also think this will be a great improvement.
It's completely opt in. Don't do anything and your posts won't be searched