It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.
Search on Mastodon is annoyingly restrictive, but you’re never getting “full search across all instances”. Remote search just isn’t a thing.
Even fucking Google is local.
Ehem. https://masto.kukei.eu/ is not great but it is an honest work
There’s absolutely no technical restriction for indexing URLs and sharing which instances ’ toots have that URL
“If I eat up a ton of bandwidth and storage, I can make remote content local” is fun until you’re the one paying for the bandwidth and storage.
Indexes are small