@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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Universeodon Social Media

Be one with the #fediverse. Join millions of humans building, creating, and collaborating on Mastodon Social Network. Supports 2000 character posts.

Mastodon hosted on universeodon.com

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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Universeodon Social Media

Be one with the #fediverse. Join millions of humans building, creating, and collaborating on Mastodon Social Network. Supports 2000 character posts.

Mastodon hosted on universeodon.com

Searching toots being seemingly intentionally limited is the most currently limiting factor to Mastodon in my opinion.

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