One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.

It’s hard not to overstate how much of a big deal it is that Mastodon is adopting this kind of search functionality. Mastodon still makes up a vast portion of the Fediverse.

While other platforms have supported this for way longer, having buy-in by the biggest player in the space will probably have a huge effect on standard expectations moving forward.

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    535·
    1 year ago

    Boo!

    I liked when people had to put effort in and you could discuss things without coming up in searches.

    • electrosphere@lemmy.ml
      501·
      1 year ago

      If you don’t want to come up in searches don’t check the box in your profile that says “I want to come up in searches”.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      That was never a thing on the fediverse… Search has been part of it since the beginning, just not on Mastodon

    • jmcs
      8·
      1 year ago

      It’s opt-in (as in by default you are not going to show up on any search)