@thomasfuchs From what I've seen, search being basically non-usable was a deliberate design choice - it makes it harder for people to find other people to attack, and I can't say I disagree with that logic.
That's another recurring theme in the last few months: People trying to build "index the fediverse" projects that keep meeting resistance from people who explicitly *don't* want their ephemeral content easily surfaced to hostile actors.