The emoji tag search is working if you use the emoji browser. (The smiley button)
The search is like a badly sorted library though. With meta data of the icons the search could become semi workable till our emojis exceed the storage capacity of the Earth.
Freeanotherday showed me that in fact does search tags. You just have to type in words semi correctly.
The search in the emoji browser (the smiley button( has tags now.
I think it does a pretty good job.
It is matching what you type in the search with the emoji name though. So for :no-fash: it doesn’t help when you think mussolini upside down etc. It does in fact search tags!
Android too. Idk, I’ve always found the emoji finder chugs hard, to the point of impacting usability. I’ve also got dogshit internet so that probably doesn’t help.
The inline :wordfragment: format works well enough for me, and limits the number of images I’m trying to load at once