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.
@thejasonhearne @petersuber @buercher
Your one short sentence sums up what is wrong with these additional search tools.
Mastodon has a search standard that is a deliberate design feature, supporting a particular communication dynamics. The standard is to let each author decide for each post how the post can be found, via hashtags.
One can't just introduce alternative mechanisms that deliberately violate those search standards and pretend it doesn't alter the system.
Use hashtags.
petersuber
Jason Hearne 
the roamer
Matthias Bürcher