Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search
One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
@stopthatgirl7 lmao, looks like we literally posted at the same time 😅
lol welp
I’ve had it happen before, and it’s such a moment of surreality.
If you would like for your own posts to be reachable by the search system, all you have to do is go to Preferences Public Profile Privacy and Reach. Once there, check the box that says Include Public Posts in Search Engines.
I'm happy that this is opt-in for users, though something that would be good to know is how users on other instances (as well as platforms like Lemmy, Kbin, Misskey, etc.) are handled. I guess the search system would not handle these users?
Big step forward
