The state of search today
Currently, most Mastodon servers are running the latest version, 4.1 - including all Mastodon servers managed by mastodon.site. By default the simple text search allows you to find display names, user names and hashtags. You cannot search the text of posts themselves.Search in Mastodon 4.2
Once a server upgrades, the setting will be available to users but on an opt-in basis.
mastodon.site will be making full text search (with ElasticSearch) available for all servers at no extra cost.
Advanced search filters
One of the great benefits of full text search is you’ll also be able to use filters. Some examples we know of so far from the announcement thread:has:image
/has:video
/has:audio
/has:media
has:poll
/has:link
/has:embed
is:sensitive
/is:reply
language:en
from:account
before:2023-08-08
after:2023-08-08
during:2023-08-08
What next?
We’re already testing full text search for mastodon.site servers - if you’d like to be among the first to benefit from this new feature, join us on https://social.mastodon.site. Why not give us a follow at [email protected] - we share new blog posts there, and we’d love to know what you think of this one, or any other topics you’d like to hear more about!Single user (€2.50/month)
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