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Simon Zerafa (Status: 
π)After struggling for an hour to add a custom search engine to @mozillaofficial for an hour, I've finally managed to get it to work! π
They really don't want to make that process easy do they? π€
Cragsand 
Full text searching of toots is possible!
Screenshot of how it looks over at https://universeodon.com below π
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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aegilops@andybaio it's a great idea, and you might not need to wait!
I remembered seeing something like this for tech sites, and while I can't find it I did get some interesting results by searching for:
["curated search engine"]
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22curated+search+engine%22
I've also seen the idea called "boutique" or "custom" search.
Some people emulate this by doing a search with `site:reddit.com`, for example.