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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by flagrant_taco on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:13PM (#38512971)
I assume it's better these days, but Mastodon avoided adding proper search for years because the core devs knew there was plenty of questionable content or there and making it discoverable would put many hosts at legal risk.
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by Sophistifunk on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:37PM (#38513123)
That's not at all why mastodon doesn't have search. It's all about stopping "bullying" when you post something stupid.
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by flagrant_taco on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:07AM (#38516774)
I'll see if I can find the links, it's been a while since I last saw them, but there was a very active GitHub issue on the main Mastodon repo back in 2017 or 2018 related to search. It came down to concerns over content that is considered acceptable in some cultures and child pornography in others.
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