I am *still* seeing people who should know better spreading the #misinformation that Mastodon is opposed to quote posts, reply limits, better search, etc. The reason those features haven't shown up yet is not ideological opposition: it's the fact that the Mastodon project's engineering staff is 2-3 people, while corporate social media platforms have engineering teams in the dozens or hundreds. If you have the skills and can #volunteer, please consider it!
@dgoldsmith Regarding search: there has definitely been pushback from node owners (complete with threats to defederate) over crawling to build an index. Some people definitely *don't* want fifteen year old toots to be easily accessed.
@mtomczak I’m talking about the project. Instance owners and individual users will be free to opt out. That’s part of why it is difficult to implement.