One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.

It’s hard not to overstate how much of a big deal it is that Mastodon is adopting this kind of search functionality. Mastodon still makes up a vast portion of the Fediverse.

While other platforms have supported this for way longer, having buy-in by the biggest player in the space will probably have a huge effect on standard expectations moving forward.

    • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
      451·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • lolgcat
        14·
        10 months ago

        Not to mention, it’s opt-in by default.

    • Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org
      35·
      10 months ago

      Seems like some of you guys want a secret club and not a proper forum/platform people use in a meaningful way.

      • Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • ashtrix@lemmy.ca
      12·
      10 months ago

      It’s completely opt in. Don’t do anything and your posts won’t be searched