@Gargron @chr @forteller - still, seems like if I type a user name, it'd be nice to see a list of possible matches on different servers. That's going to take some sort of master registry though, which I'm not sure exists. No idea how this thing is architected.

@gideonro @chr @gargron What if you don't know the server and that's why you're searching. Also: searching for words and hashtags is important to find people to follow and just as a way to use the communications system (e.g. 'what are people saying about X nowadays?')

@forteller @gideonro @gargron
- deprioritizing being able to search for words was an intentional design decision to prevent dogpiling/namesearching
- fuzzy searching names on other servers could increase load a lot and would almost certainly only show people from servers yours has communicated with before (that being said it might be possible to do in a limited capacity)

@chr @Gargron @forteller - yes, and if there is a centralized registry, that kinda takes away from the whole idea, I suppose.

@forteller agreed.

@forteller @Gargron @chr @gideonro There's definitely an opportunity for someone to build a huuuuge index of users and toots, and make it searchable. Would be interesting to see different people trying different approaches and open-sourcing their code. Twitter didn't have its own search originally; search started as a completely separate company.

@josh @Gargron @chr @forteller - I didn't realize that about Twitter, Josh. Seems like that would end up being a massive synchronization job for a federated platform like this - kind of like a giant email registry in the cloud.

@gideonro @josh @Gargron @chr @forteller Just stumbled across this, that'd be pretty darn cool.