@mjgardner When you need a long post explaining why things don't appear when searching (etc), you must recognize a "normal person" doesn't have to be someone who has used anything else at all. It's unexpected behavior.
When we all use a term like the “fediverse”, it implies an aggregation of separate servers coöperating and acting like a “universe” of content...and that search would find things in that universe.
Saying “that's not how it works" doesn't mean that's not how it should work.