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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ehem. https://masto.kukei.eu is not great but it is an honest work

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's absolutely no technical restriction for indexing URLs and sharing which instances ' toots have that URL

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 1 month ago

Indexes are small