To opt into your content being searchable, once your...

To opt into your content being searchable, once your instance is upgraded to support this feature, head to the your profile, and the new “Privacy and reach" tag, then tick the "include public posts in search”.

We will try to ensure users know this setting exists, nothing 100% defined yet, but we may add a dismissible banner asking to review your privacy settings page.

Like 24 Aug 2023 at 19:17 | Open on oisaur.com

5 comments

Renaud Chaput

Full-text search allows you to search for words in the content of statuses (if your instance has ElasticSearch configured), compared to the current version which only allows searching for hashtags.

In addition, you get a whole lot of search modifiers for advanced search (no UI for those yet):

has:image / has:video / has:audio / has:media
has:poll / has:link / has:embed
is:sensitive / is:reply
language:en
from:account
before:2023-08-08
after:2023-08-08
during:2023-08-08

24 Aug 2023 at 19:22 | Open on oisaur.com

Frozen Canuck

@renchap does full-text search also encompass a user’s profile (opt-in)? Basically to help aid in user discoverability

24 Aug 2023 at 19:25 | Open on mas.to

Renaud Chaput

@frozencanuck Profiles are already indexed (in 4.2.0 at least), if your profiled is marked as “discoverable" (the “Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms" setting).
If this setting is not set, then only the user name and display name are indexed.

24 Aug 2023 at 19:31 | Open on oisaur.com

tsetiady

@renchap one question does mastodon operators support NOT or "-" i.e. -has:link to search for post that has no link (text only)?

24 Aug 2023 at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.social

Renaud Chaput

@tsetiady I am not sure of the exact syntax, but it should support AND / OR / NOT, and if it does not it can be added easily. I will check!

24 Aug 2023 at 19:30 | Open on oisaur.com