It’s like Reddit, as an link aggregator (Wikipedia said “social news aggregation […] website”), but federated (in the Fediverse), as in it is not centralized and built upon many instances of Lemmy, not just one centralized website like Reddit.

I think I was able to found the GitHub PR related to this. I think it is a feature so people can search for toots if they turn on “Discoverable”. It is now locked before it “devolves into another search feature debate.”

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

By the way, both Lewis and George are participating this season, first appeared in Episode 2, not on Episode 1.

guenther approves 👍