On Twitter (Tweetdeck), an important functionality was the search column, where you could have a term like "UAP report" and you'd get a columns with all the results in it.
Can Mastadon do that? Is it even possible with the distributed nature?
@mickwest unfortunately #searching is intentionally limited on #Mastodon. I think it's one of its greatest flaws but hopefully it can be changed to an #instance based setting in the future.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21627#issuecomment-1332768678
Enable searching of all toots · Issue #21627 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Currently, searching on Mastodon in possible by linking an Elasticsearch instance. When enabled users are able to search the content of posts they have made, or have interacted with. Posts th...

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