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The biggest drawback I found is it's impossible to search across the network for a query. On Twitter if I want to find out what people are saying about $NewMovi

The biggest drawback I found is it's impossible to search across the network for a query. On Twitter if I want to find out what people are saying about $NewMovieTitle I just search for it, and can narrow it down using the advanced search criteria. The strangest part is that this is apparently intended behavior in Mastodon, but their documentation doesn't offer a clear explanation why (and I can't really think of one). I've heard that it's possible to build your own instance that does indexing but I haven't tried yet, and I haven't found any existing instances that offer this very basic feature either.

pwinnski 4y ago
Most movies will have a hashtag (or more than one), which you can use to search. Full-text search isn't available without opt-in, because that's not a feature the majority of historical mastodon users have wanted, nor a feature the seeming majority of current mastodon users want. Me, I've opted in at some POC sites, but mostly you'll want to user hashtags for search. So #AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania instead of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania"