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AFAIK there have been several attempts at this, but Mastodon deliberately does not support arbitrary search and some communities are extremely hostile to having
by WJW 4y ago
AFAIK there have been several attempts at this, but Mastodon deliberately does not support arbitrary search and some communities are extremely hostile to having their posts scraped.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThis seems like it guarantees political battles of some sort? Whether intra or inter-community.
- WJW 4y agoGiven how many political battles there are on platforms that do have full text search, I don't think it's the lack or presence of full text search that causes such things. Rather it seems likely that political battles naturally arise on any social media platform that allows broadcasting your opinion to the whole world.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI meant battles between different instance hosters and moderators.