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Alex Gleason | 9 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +6 
 Imagine having a global search that just works, from the very beginning, without having to build up your database with follows. Mastodon fears this.

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Token | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Can this be done on ActivityPub servers too? I'd love to be able to search and "force" a federation that way, especially as a don't tend to follow everyone I see.
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Yonle | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A bit complicated. If we do it locally, It's complicated.

But if we simply use the search API on big instances such as mastodon.social, It may work.
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FBXLSJ0 | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My search sucks, doesn't display any results for text search. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?