Josh
BrianKrebsTIL you can quickly find your own posts by including "from:me" in the search box and then a key word or phrase you're searching for. Yes, it took me this long to figure that out.
Jaime Herazo@briankrebs
I was today's years old when i learned about this π
Julio J. π²@briankrebs I find the "in:library" operator super useful as well to find posts I've interacted (like, share, reply) with
Kee Hinckley@j3j5 @OkieSpaceQueen @briankrebs Well that woke me up. Iβve wanted to re-find things Iβve interacted with a lot. Looking around I see that @FediTips has a nice list of search operators and other features here:
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/
This all assumes your instance is running at least Mastodon 4.2.0 and has the ElasticSearch feature.
This is the current operator list the article provides for Mastodon 4.2.0. Read the full web page for more details.
- has:media β Only shows posts with an attachment (images, audio, video)
- has:poll β Only shows posts with a poll
- has:embed β Only shows posts with a link that produces some kind of embedded media (such as a YouTube or PeerTube link)
- language:fr using language codes β Only shows posts using that language, the example would filter for posts in French. Click here to see a complete list of language codes on Mastodon.
- is:reply β Only shows posts that are replies
- is:sensitive β Only shows posts marked as sensitive
- from:(FEDIVERSE ADDRESS HERE) β Only shows posts by that particular user, for example from:@FediTips
- from:me β Only shows posts you have made yourself
- in:all β Searches all posts visible to you
- in:library β Only shows posts you have interacted with or written yourself
- before:date, during:date, after:date β Filters for posts before, during or after the selected date. Dates are written in the format YYYY-MM-DD, so for example posts after 1st June 2023 would be after:2023-06-01
Fedi.Tips@nazgul @j3j5 @OkieSpaceQueen @briankrebs
You can also use more than one operator in the same search, so if you combine them you can filter things quite precisely. For example use before: and after: to have posts from a very specific date range.
You can also use the minus sign before an operator to exclude those posts from results.
Michael
Deb has moved! (see profile) π¨π¦@briankrebs also "in:library" for things you've interacted with (ex: replied, β'd)
Peter ButlerNow *thatβs* helpful. Most of my favorites are made so I wonβt lose the post, but I didnβt know I could search them
Thank you!
@peterbutler @briankrebs I find it can take a while for recent items to show up in these searches. Oh well!
Mauri@briankrebs makes two of us! π
πΊπ¦πͺπΊ cweickhmann@briankrebs Is it possible this only works on some instances and/or from certain versions onwards?
@cweickhmann Yeah I don't have any experience with other instances, so I was speaking only about this server -- infosec.exchange. Several others have chimed in to say it's not the same on their server.
Rihards Olups@briankrebs @cweickhmann
Latest Mastodon version (as on mastodon.social) also has a helpful search dropdown.
Latest Mastodon version (as on mastodon.social) also has a helpful search dropdown.
Flominator@cweickhmann
Yes. At mine for example, it doesn't work anymore, because it consumed so many resources, iirc
@briankrebs
Yes. At mine for example, it doesn't work anymore, because it consumed so many resources, iirc
@briankrebs
@cweickhmann @briankrebs I meanwhile switched to downloading my posts and searching with a text editor.
@Flominator I was about to propose have them shipped to the browser and search them client side (which is basically what you do). But doesnβt that consume just as much if not more resources?
This probably only works because for most people itβs too complicated and they - like me - simply donβt try.
(I totally see the reason why instances donβt allow it: after all itβs costly, and users usually donβt chip in.)
@briankrebs
This probably only works because for most people itβs too complicated and they - like me - simply donβt try.
(I totally see the reason why instances donβt allow it: after all itβs costly, and users usually donβt chip in.)
@briankrebs
Laimis@briankrebs from:me trick depends on elastic search indexing being enabled and operational on the instance you are on. mstdn.social continuously stops updating those, so for me the most recent results are from feb 16th...
your auntifa liza π΅π· π¦ π¦¦IMPORTANT @briankrebs do not use spacing around the colon. search options have to be treated as one word, as in:
in:library
from:me
the font used for the pop-out in the deckβs search form still doesnt have the kerning adjusted and it looks like thereβs a space there. there should be no space.
RadioPhobicSherkPop@briankrebs wow, that is incredibly useful!
Michael Stanclift@briankrebs to be fair to yourself it's only been a feature of Mastodon since 4.2 which came out in September.
Steve Moore 
@briankrebs That search function isn't available on toad.social π
Brar Piening@briankrebs wow. Thanks!
Seong's π Seongs@briankrebs OH MY GOD THIS WAS A THING?
That's such a useful macro what the fuck.
Jan Dytrychπ¨πΏπΊπ¦@briankrebs good to know! Thanks!
Cat ππ₯ (D.Burch) 
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Tim Bray@briankrebs In the default Masto web app (which I don't normally use) if you start typing in the search box, it pops up lots of helpful hints about useful things search can do.
π‘πππΊππππΊπ π°ππππ±@briankrebs
Does that include posts I boosted? I've seen that boosts by me get counted as posts by me for stats, but not sure if search does that too? I want to find something I boosted a while ago, but don't remember who the OP was.
Does that include posts I boosted? I've seen that boosts by me get counted as posts by me for stats, but not sure if search does that too? I want to find something I boosted a while ago, but don't remember who the OP was.
Saagar Jha@briankrebs If your instance supports it of course