Search is really, actually, finally coming to Mastodon. By far one of its most discussed and requested features, there is now finally an implementation that fully accounts for people’s consent to opt-in to being indexed. How Lemmy’s community is evolving, and grappling with conversations about defederation and blocking continues to be a major focus for me. Beyond that, how software forges like now GitLab are working on becoming part of the fediverse is something to look out for, how this will impact the idea about what the fediverse actually is. Speaking about ‘fediverse’, I wrote an article about its multiple meanings this week, check it out! But first, let’s dive into this week’s news…