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As near as I can tell, Mastodon doesn't really have #2 in the list above. Last I heard, the social architecture was hostile to comprehensive indexing of the entire fediverse for search.

That's probably one of the biggest reasons that I have remained on Twitter even after setting up a Mastodon persona.

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Mastodon searching is a lot more focused on hashtags rather than the contents of peoples posts. Consider it more "opt-in" discovery.

The existing user base is strongly in favour of a more organic social graph from exploring tags for shared interests.

Browsing tags is a very normal thing to do on the platform.

Hashtags work great on mastodon. I follow a few of them. It's all sorted by time.

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