In recent weeks, people unhappy with Mastodon project talked about forking the project in a different direction. It's harder than it looks.

A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It actually does have that nowadays, it’s just that the feature requires Elasticsearch to work, which is one extra piece of infra for admins to worry about.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        It is about as common as using a database server for content though to use something like ES, Solr or similar software for search.