#searchingtoots — Public Fediverse posts

@mickwest
Mastodon by default unfortunately only supports searching via hashtags. You can't search via content in posts unless they type a specific hashtag.

There are exceptions though...

The https://universeodon.com instance has implemented a custom feature for searching text in posts. I'm hoping this gets adopted by more instances! It makes finding like minded and interesting discussions that much better.

Trying there might help you find skeptics and ufo related discussions that way 😉

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Full text searching of toots is possible!

Screenshot of how it looks over at https://universeodon.com below 👇

It runs a custom full text search implementation for the instance.

It won't catch everything but it makes finding interesting and like-minded magnitudes easier than painfully spamming hashtags.

Discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627

Blog post about the custom search feature: https://blog.universeodon.com/mastodon-advanced-search-is-here
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Wow this #mastodon instance universodon.com has some of the more enhanced search features I've been looking for!

In this blog it's mentioned that this is going main on Mastodon but no timeframe given. I hope this is accurate. If so that's great news! The limited search features of Mastodon is what I've always seen as the thing most holding it back from being adopted as a Twitter alternative.

https://blog.universeodon.com/mastodon-advanced-search-is-here

Previous discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627

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