@rauschma @seb A central single authority on inclusion and exclusion CANNOT function as a safe space. It undermines every advantage of the federation — but most of all, it confuses the fk out of normal people.

3. Big shiny centralised search, yep, the whole thing not just hashtags. But opt-in please. Yet the fact that I can’t reliably search my own replies — even now, I have to use a search engine — is undermining the key advantage of “permanance”

Twitter really — unwisely — had the “repository of all knowledge” vibe about it for a time. Reddit too. They were both unsuitable but they still achieved it.

Mastodon IS the suitable place for it. Let’s enable that.