About searching on #Mastodon 


You can search for other users in 3 ways:
By the 'short' handle:
@stux

By the 'full' handle:
@stux[@]mstdn.social

Or with the 'public' profile URL:
https://mstdn.social/@stux

Searching for posts

You can search for posts in 2 ways:

On hashtags, for example:
#Linux #Mastodon

Or on the 'full post URL!' (click on a post timestamp for the public URL, or 3 little dots => 'Copy lint to post').
This applies for both 'remote' and 'local' posts. (on your instance and others)

#FediTips
@stux but i dunno want lint in my post 
@stux one of the benefits of switching from Elasticsearch to Postgres FTS is that all the posts are already indexed so you can search for any post using FTS instead of the ones you've interacted with.