One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
    • ithas@artemis.camp
      6·
      1 year ago

      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

  • atocci@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    It’s pretty nice. My instance, ohai.social, implemented it already and it’s certainly convenient.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thats so cool. How hard is to setup an instance? Like to i have to buy an actual server?

      • Mara@pawb.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        The hard part isn’t setting up an instance. The hard part is getting it well-federated. If it’s not well-federated then you’re going to be in a party on your own. If you have a fairly large follow list (about 3-5k) it may be better, but overall it’ll be a bad experience.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not hard at all actually! Their docs are really well done, and I believe someone has recently made an Ansible playbook if that’s more your style as well (though I can’t endorse it since I haven’t tried it yet).

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.orgEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • kobold@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • Stephen304@lemmy.ml
      13·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • tromars@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Genuine question: why would people have a problem with making stuff you post publicly searchable?

      • kobold@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.

        Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.

        There is a violence in that I still haven’t figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right

        • tromars@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I never said people shouldn’t have that right, i was just genuinely wondering why it’s important to people. Thanks for the insight, definitely good points you make. :)