rich1.0Brian Dear (npub1p2…tj7r2)https://yabu.me/npub1p2h7j28gajy7jqwc4rj36449gyzmvlgpzyjntssq3y446yx7szjsktj7r2njumphttps://yabu.meAnd that is why Mastodon is stuck at 15 million accounts, only a fraction of which are active in any meaningful sense. The 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.