I really want to like Mastodon but there are two things that really bug me about it. First, searching for anything is very slow. Second, searching for people wh

I really want to like Mastodon but there are two things that really bug me about it. First, searching for anything is very slow. Second, searching for people who are not on the same instance with me seems to return a lot of false negatives. The first may be a Ruby on Rails problem (although I am not sure), possibly exacerbated by the decentralized layout of Mastodon instances. The second seems to be a fundamental design problem. It seems to me that the original idea of Mastodon was that people would want to participate in communities that focus on specific themes. Many instances are aiming to serve people who are interested in one particular thing. Because of this, finding people and posts on other instances is harder. But reducing my interests to a single dimension is not how I used to use Twitter, so this is a major usability problem for me.