One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
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It’s pretty nice. My instance, ohai.social, implemented it already and it’s certainly convenient.
Thats so cool. How hard is to setup an instance? Like to i have to buy an actual server?
Sorry, when I say mine, I mean the one I signed up for, not the one I run
Elestisearch is an interesting choice to stick with. Mastodon is already a resource hog as it is.
Well, what else are you gonna do? ES is proven and battle tested.
I admittedly don’t follow mastodon development much but wonder if there are plans to allow switching it out. I know firefish allows meilisearch which I’ve read is far more efficient
About time. I’ve been using well-federated Firefish instances to do my searching because that platform supports that feature, but now I won’t have to anymore.
anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn’t a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances’ posts for search? just me?
That was about indexing without people’s permission. This new system is opt-in so if you don’t grant access in your settings, your posts won’t get included.
That’s fantastic news, glad to hear it
Genuine question: why would people have a problem with making stuff you post publicly searchable?