If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more, the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/

Thanks to @buercher for building it.

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips #feditips

Tootfinder

@petersuber @buercher or just use #hashtags as per design? 🤷‍♂️

@thejasonhearne @petersuber @buercher Maybe I like to run much more specific searches than you, Jason, but hashtags are nowhere near precise enough for me even IF people were using them in every single toot.

Even when it comes to just searching my *own* toots--"where is the one specific dog photo I posted where the story I told included X?" is impossible unless I happened to hashtag that word, which would've been super weird.

@sstoneb @petersuber @buercher I get that. Totally. However that’s not #Mastodon. It’s not built to do that.
Great that it’s #opensource and folk have found a way to get it to do that. But it’s basically turning it into #Twitter which it isn’t.