I find the arguments against officially supported Fediverse search pretty tedious, as you have to be really naive to believe that a bunch of bad-faith actors aren’t already quietly archiving everything.
Much better to positively engage with people trying to provide a service that is clearly in demand than to bikeshed every public discussion while Prigozhin, Palantir, and a dozen GenZ Alexander Kogans archive everything.
@alex I think some people have a different worry: they worry that ability to search becomes trivial to acquire, so low-effort trolls will use it too. I don't buy that reasoning either (because very few people request that their posts not be indexed by web search engines, so they are often searchable that way already), but it's a different one than the one you're responding to.
