GlitchCat Policy on Global Fulltext Search 
By default, Mastodon only allows fulltext searching on posts that a user has interacted with.
Some instances have recently decided to remove that limitation. This document comprises our policy with respect to those instances.
https://github.com/GlitchCatFedi/Policy/blob/main/Global%20Fulltext%20Search.markdown
@Lady who has talked about doing this?
@Chronotope it is my understanding that patches exist in PR #2 and #3 here: https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pulls
see this previous discussion in glitch-soc (closed without merging) for more interested parties: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/1502
and of course it has come up various other times in the past as well. i’m trying not to be too harsh on any specific instances for wanting this, while still setting a firm boundary desired by our users.
@Lady Ok, interesting. Good to know. I was just trying to figure out what the concerns were here and understand the changes involved. I see @vyr as the person leading the changes and I think they have some reasonable reasons to do so, but I understand why an instance might want to react the way yours has as well.