It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.

It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah. And I’m interested in retrieving all of the servers my instance is connected to that contain a string in that community name.

    Why is this so hard to get across to you?

    Why don’t you have a solution for how server members find communities on different servers in the first place? Are you really defending relying on third-party services and ‘other means’ to find communities on different servers?

    I think that’s really bad design and a testament to why the fediverse is inaccessible to the general public.