

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.
Search is broken beyond the choice of being an opt-in. The fact that there’s no way to sort search in any way except chronological order means it’s hard to find anything relevant. Instead it’s usually just a bunch of spam blogs or replies

They’re probably angling for more restrictions on Chinese cars in the US/Japan. Then they can enjoy their monopoly over the domestic market without having to actually invest anything to actually compete with Chinese auto companies