{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Brian Dear wrote","author_name":"Brian Dear (npub1p2…tj7r2)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1p2h7j28gajy7jqwc4rj36449gyzmvlgpzyjntssq3y446yx7szjsktj7r2","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"And that is why Mastodon is stuck at 15 million accounts, only a fraction of which are active in any meaningful sense.\n\nThe lack of search functionality, blocked by a purist ideology held by another fraction of the user population, may be elegant (in the nerdy Linux sense) but it is an architectural form of pre-crime censorship and control, which has had clear and obvious effects on the “community” and on these so-called “conversations,” turning Mastodon into a fast-moving river."}