Metin Seven 🎨Jan 22, 2024

Did you know you can easily search through your own Mastodon posts?

Just include from:me in the search field.

Instead of this, you can include in:library to show posts you have interacted with or written yourself.

If you want to search through posts of a specific user, include from:username (the full username, including the instance)

If it doesn't work, have a look at this:
https://graphics.social/@metin/111821440228692015

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

Metin Seven 🎨 (@[email protected])

A follow-up post regarding the Mastodon search tips: If the search options don't work, the reason might be that your Mastodon instance maintainer hasn't implemented Elasticsearch. Also important: do not use capitals anywhere in the search conditions. E.g.: "From:me" doesn't work. Further reading: https://mstdn.social/@DeltaWye/111280982761530295 and https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/ #mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

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Show threadKay   Jan 22, 2024

@metin This doesn't seem to work on my instance but maybe I have spaces in the wrong place?

And when you say from:me is that literally the phrasing or should I replace the me with my Mastodon name?

Show threadMetin Seven 🎨Jan 22, 2024

@Kay It's simply from:me , and there shouldn't be a space in the mentioned operators or usernames.

Here's a page where you can read more info:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

How do I search for stuff on Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Show threadAdam HartzellJan 22, 2024
@metin Yeah @Kay this doesn't work for all of us in all instances. It all fails for me in mine too & my instance's admins said they're looking into why it doesn't work for me in mine
Show threadval
@ModernDayBartleby @metin @Kay They need to configure full-text search: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/
Configuring full-text search - Mastodon documentation

Setting up Elasticsearch to search for statuses (authored, favourited, or mentioned), public indexable status, and accounts

Jan 22, 2024 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadKay   Jan 22, 2024

@val Who do you mean by "They"? The volunteer admins who run each individual instance?

I'm happy not to have too many fancy extras on Mastodon even if I'd like to be better able to search my own posts. I don't want Mastodon to turn into Twitter.

Show threadvalJan 23, 2024

@Kay Yes, the volunteer admins. The toot I replied to said the sender's admins were looking into why it doesn't work. So I linked to the documentation of what they need to do if they want to make it work, to save them time in case they didn't know.

It wasn't an injunction for these admins to do it, let alone every admin. I myself didn't enable full-text search on my instance.

Show threadNikJul 25, 2024
@val @ModernDayBartleby @metin @Kay it's about to get easier (depending on your choice of client): https://mastodon.social/@pachli/112841729532862981
Show threadKay   Jul 26, 2024
@nikclayton @val @ModernDayBartleby @metin Lack of searchability could be a feature not a bug. So far I'm in two minds about which I prefer.
Show threadNikJul 26, 2024
@Kay @val @ModernDayBartleby @metin Fortunately, Mastodon provides settings you can adjust that control whether your account or your posts appear in search results.