Jan Lehnardt 🛋️Jan 12, 2023

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

Ex-Searchtodon: Private Timeline Search for Mastodon

Show threadJan Lehnardt 🛋️Jan 14, 2023

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!

Show threadErin Kissane
@janl I was really enjoying it and appreciated the thoughtful approach.
Jan 14, 2023 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadJan Lehnardt 🛋️Jan 14, 2023
@kissane thank you!