normally don't like weighing in on discourse but i keep seeing mentions of this on my feed so
why are there so many people that want to shut down the cohost global feed alskfja
i don't understand what's inherently wrong with it or why everyone's treating it like it's some sort of monster. i've wanted something along the lines of an officially supported global feed since like day 1 because i thought the point of social platforms was to like, be able to find people, and to me it seems like a perfectly fine and sensible opt-in way to do so.
the performance issues were only recently brought to light and it's already been resolved, and i can understand the potential issue with people tagging others' posts to unwillingly bring them to a greater audience, but afaik that's a function that literally doesn't occur within the search function (i.e. from what i remember testing, i don't think tagging someone else's post in a rechost shows up in search results for that tag. either way, as someone that's semi-regularly browsed the global feed, i don't think i've ever seen anyone use it in an abusive way).
as an aside it's kind of frustrating to not be able to find any thorough explanations for these sort of things. i don't mind disagreeing with people's reasoning and just living without certain functions, but as someone who would like a global feed / dms / etc. i've been kinda shocked by how often i'd scroll through every single comment and not find any explanation from anyone more than "this function is inherently bad and i don't like it, so it's a good thing they're not adding it" while people who are in support of it bring up genuine reasons without receiving much of a counterargument. sorry if i'm coming off angry, i'm mostly just a bit frustrated and would like an explanation more than anything.
