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1 year agoWhen we had the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 in Australia we were recommended to stock up on P2 (local equivalent to N95) masks for the smoke, and we never expected we’d end up using them for a completely different reason only a few months later
Mastodon’s search not applying to all posts is ‘a feature, not a bug’, as mentioned in the documentation:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/network/#search
I do understand the rationale behind it in that it makes it safer for people to share personal or political things to their followers without the risk of abuse from strangers, and the recommended alternative is to hashtag any post that’s okay to be publicly found.
The problem with this is that there is no agreement on which hashtags to use consistently, and that people are not used to, or feel a stigma about, adding hashtags to the end of each post.