Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:
Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon
It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”
It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.
Here goes: https://searchtodon.social
As promised, here’s an update on Searchtodon.
I have shut it down & deleted all data (as of 14:06 CET today).
As implemented, it does not gel *with* the Mastodon community, although the functionality did prove useful to a lot of people.
I’m working on a retrospective that hopefully can inform future experimenters.
Thanks everybody for giving it a try and for all your constructive feedback!
@janl I really hope a feature like this ends up in Mastodon itself or in the clients though.
Without excessive bookmarking of every post that seems even remotely relevant (which ultimately defeats the purpose) I never find anything on here ever again, as soon as it‘s more than a day or two in the past. :(
Jan Lehnardt 🛋️
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