about mastodon. i love centralized social networks because you can search for any post, regardless of the date of its creation, any person, any community. in mastodon, however, this does not work.
when you register on a small instance, people’s profiles are empty, there are no posts, hashtags do not work.
if you register on a medium-sized instance, it’s already better, but there are still people who are not subscribed to from someone from your instance and their profiles are empty, and even if someone is subscribed, only posts which are shown are ones that were created after the subscription of person from your instance, older are not, and the person may have been maintaining this account for a lot longer, post history preservation is broken. hashtags are already available, but still not all of them, because not all posts are available too (hashtags work like a filter for post).
if you register on a large instance, small ones will defederate from you and you will see neither their hashtags, nor interesting people, nor their posts.
there is a feeling of distortion of reality, which is a nasty feeling in itself.
No, you are disappointed that Mastadon doesn’t have the same feature set as Twitter. The fact that you can search off instance at all is impressive. What you are asking for is like saying you should find GM cars in Ford’s search bar. Each instance is its own website. Search engines are designed to do what you want, and as Mastadon grows in popularity, it’s search results will become more prominent.
Aggregators will come out eventually too
so I think that such an interaction between instances is now broken and requires reorganization
I’m not talking about interactions between instances, I’m talking about Google and Bing indexing Mastadon. That’s who we should be using for search.
hopefully this kind of search will work well over time ❤️🙂