I particularly like Mastodon’s chronological and weak search. You won’t be easily found unless you wanted to, and your timeline is well-ordered and never will it be disturbed by some algorithms. To me these are its advantages.
@Pazintach @StoicLime @Phoeniqz I think it has to do with the mastodon community’s aversion to indexing because of privacy and consent reasons. A bunch of servers already have de-federated from the one I am on(universeodon.com) because the admin added a full-text search patch.
I don’t like it because my feed gets flooded with low quality content that’s only there because the poster used that particular hashtag. It needs sorting like Reddit, so that I can keep the good quality content on top, but also have a chronological option if I ever get bored.
It makes no sense to choose chronological when you can make it optional. Bluesky is much, much better in this regard.
