nostr:npub1443f402uy24kclwa0s67r3ddq8shg4u8e5m5hrdwtgqk9jkazhzs9hd7sk Yes, search for Mastodon is in development as part of the upcoming 4.2 release. The pre-release code is already running on mastodon.social and mastodon.online 

I posted a screen shot of what you need to do to opt-in to search: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/110967743685054394

But that's also the thing- people will need to *opt in* to have their posts included in search, and some % of people won't, and it will take time to get enough posts to be effective.

It's hard without a centralized database of posts.