@m @jupiter_rowland Hey I just want to find other people who share my weird hobbies and interests - and mastodon makes that next to impossible unless said interest is something with several really large instances devoted entirely to it.
@jupiter_rowland That's all well and good, but if I search for a hashtag, I will still only see posts with that, by people on my server or that my server knows - that does not make discoverability easy.
@Quentin @jupiter_rowland
Your server should know every other server in the Fediverse, so that is a lot of servers you are searching for a #tag
(I am pro discoverability BTW)
@jupiter_rowland Ok I'm going to give up on this, clearly it's only encountering hostility. I don't really understand why, given the entire web is built on the idea of separate servers working on agreed protocols and with established ways of finding each other. If I create a new website today, sure you might not be able to find it immediately, but by next week, DNS servers and web crawlers will have done their thing and you could use any major search engine to find it if you put in the same keywords I've used. Clearly there is resistance in the fediverse to this well entrenched idea and people only want to find others they already know. I just need to get my head around that. I'm not intricately familiar with how the fediverse works under the hood and I've never setup an instance. I'm just looking at this from the point of view of a user who would like to be able to find people who post things with the same hashtags I do -ESPECIALLY users I don't already know - which I thought was the idea of hashtags in the first place.... Anyway, I'm happy to drop this now, I really didn't intend to start an argument...