@tarheel oh yeah, let me tell you, full text search works beautifully well. and crucially it searches on alt text, and since i have good discipline on putting alt text, I get the bonus of easily finding memes
For a LONG time, Gargron and crew were philosophically opposed to search as a functionality because they didn't want harassers searching out posts to brigade. Same mindset with quote-boosting.
So... there was no search (only on tags).
I think search functionality was only added recently (for some value of "recent" -- I'm constantly thinking something was only a week or a month ago and then I find out it was two years ago).
@mildsunrise@tarheel no but it's on vanilla mastodon. but the checkbox to appear on the public search index is disabled by default (you can always search your own posts tho)
