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The latest version of Mastodon (4.2.0) brings full text search, so you can search by words instead of hashtags.
However, for privacy reasons this only includes posts by people who have actively opted into full text search.
If your server is updated to 4.2.0 and you want to opt into full text search:
1. Log into your server's website
2. Click your profile icon
3. Click "Edit Profile"
4. Click tab "Privacy & Reach"
5. Tick box "Include Public Posts In Search results"
6. Click "Save Changes"
@feditips This feature doesn't seem to work for me? It doesn't seem to be enabled on my instance, but I tried it on mastodon.social and I can't tell if I'm just doing something wrong but it isn't giving me anything.
I know not everyone is opted into this, but surely "cat" would yield results?
I think you have to log in to get full text search, so you would need an account on mastodon.social to search via there.
For tech.lgbt though I get the same problem even when logged in, so it seems like full text search is broken there? I wonder if @mods can help with this?
Maybe tech.lgbt has results deactivated but allow people to opt in for results on other servers?
@feditips @Nyla_Smokeyface we don't yet have full-text search, it's on the docket for one of the sysadmins, and it'll be added in the future.