also just as a thing, in general 'you shouldnt impliment this because it isnt the platonic ideal of <thing>' doesnt actually fly.
no im not talking about the not-quite-almost-ok privacy stuff, i mean... christ so many features that people say cant even be worked on because any solutions that can be done wont be absolutely perfect
@nire I've been thinking about things like federated search and stuff.
The problem is literally thousands of requests for each search...
@Elizafox federated search is different, as is a lot of things, because bandwidth requirements are absurd from masto being done the way it is
@Elizafox the way i can see search done is by someone *hosting the search thing* or a cluster of them that work together, because otherwise a lot of the effort is duplicated
@Elizafox but 'effort duplication' is basically half this project so shrug