[nathanmarz]

That is indeed an intentional part of Mastodon's design, which we tried to be faithful to as much as possible. We originally implemented search across all statuses and had to reimplement it when we realized Mastodon is a little different.

[sitzkrieg]

did you ever consider starting from something already technically performant like pleroma or misskey?

[nathanmarz]

Well, we didn't start from anything as we implemented this completely from scratch. I believe Mastodon is much more widely used than those so it seemed like a better target for this.

[sitzkrieg]

yea i misspoke, good distinction lol. certainly makes sense, thanks