Byron Miller on Nostr: In four months of having full text search, we have not received any complaints of ...

In four months of having full text search, we have not received any complaints of abuse or concerns from any local users or users across federation.

Now, the discussions of this out in the open have been extreme and highly debated but I feel it's time to share that I have not experienced any of the "beefs" with search and I've learned that I think we have more problems without search.

With search, we have an auto-moderator bot that can look for keywords and surface posts to moderators for review.

With search we can watch for trends and boost posts that otherwise are hard to discover.

With search you can discover people on their profiles because they have facts about them beyond just their username.

With search, we could do cool things like saved searches as lists or saved searches as advanced UI panes.

Y'all write amazing content that begs to be discovered and y'all deserve that discovery remains in your hands as user options to opt/in out and not give it to Google.