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.
okay so now you have a decentralised list with 1000 servers on it. does your instance… make 1000 requests when you search?
Lists can be cached and updated. Even if posts from all doesn’t include all active content it would be very manageable to have a queries include communities across instances based on names and other fields. All this shit is already solved problems.