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.

  • RobotToaster
    33·
    6 months ago

    Mastodon lacks a lot of basic features, like full text search.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      11·
      6 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
        2·
        6 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.

        • dnzm@feddit.nl
          1·
          6 months ago

          It absolutely is. Yet, as Sean said, it’s also yet another bit of software to run and maintain, and ES is known to be a bit of an effort to keep going well.

          Admins having only finite amounts of time and/or resources, might make the very understandable decision to leave it out.