When I first joined Mastodon, it didn't have search, and that was the reason I didn't use it.

It now has search, but can we all admit that it's really bad?

@wdormann it is. Yes.

@wdormann Sure?

@wdormann the toot window is actually much better for searching users specifically. if you type in @ and Swift, it shows up immediately in the autocomplete options.

and just FYI, users who keep their first and last names together (keeping in line with their usernames) don't appear in searches where there's a space separating their names e.g. @briankrebs

@wdormann Yes! The only solution I see rn is to somehow convince web search engines to adjust their indexing to better support Fedi (as they did before with twitter). Here's a @kagihq feature request: https://kagifeedback.org/d/2357-fediverse-index

@wdormann
Maybe they're the people who post to the account?

@FritzAdalis
Why would I want to know who does that?