Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
@kellogh I just rediscovered RSS & apart from feeds which are by design or for me read-only, I'm finding it invaluable to (a) keep track of my must-read people (& click through if I wish to read or join a Fediverse conversation), (b) to index my own posts on Mastodon so that I can relocate them without endless scrolling! (My instance does not yet have search options - & the RSS reader is fast.) @twilliability #RSS#Elasticsearch#OpenWeb
I took some time to work out the exact #formatting that #Elasticsearch demands. If you think this might be useful, go ahead and boost. If you find any errors or would like to suggest additions, please also post a reply!
Hopefully this can help prevent a lot of frustration and trouble people might encounter and give them a better Mastodon experience!
Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.
Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!
Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).
Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.
I've noticed a lot of chatter about setting up Elasticsearch for Mastodon 4.2's new full text search over the last few days, including what hardware is required, how difficult is it, etc.
So I thought I’d write down my experience, including the hardware I'm running Elasticsearch on for my single user instance:
After reading a massive tome about #ElasticSearch earlier this week I realised it was complete overkill and just used the full-text capabilities of #PostgreSQL instead.
Currently PieFed has 46,000 posts and results are fast. It'll be interesting to see how well it copes when there are more posts. Anyone want to make a guess when it'll bog down?
ES|QL is a great new query language for #Elasticsearch, and my team is building integrations into the client libraries. Here's an overview of our #PHP integration that lets you turn your results into PHP objects.
this enables full-text search for posts you haven't interacted with, as well as full-text search for accounts, and includes several advanced filtering operators and parser fixes.
can confirm. The new fulltext search works great, and is awesome! I just searched for "footiMac" which I know only I use and it returned results very very quickly. I can go way back. Including to it's very first mention back in January!
This ability is so very important for the usability and attractiveness of Mastodon!
Delighted to let everyone know that https://fediverse.au has been successfully upgraded to 4.2.5 of #Mastodon software (thank you, Claire!).
Additionally, #ElasticSearch has been installed for a better user experience.
Fediverse AU is exclusively for #research organisations and #university schools, centres and #faculties in the Australasian region - as most Mastodon instances don't allow these sorts of corporate accounts.
Please let me know if you experience any issues or glitches.
Q for people who have used Elastic Search, esp. for a Mastodon instance: how should I configure it to use less memory (while still having enough)? Right now it seems to eat as much as it wants (~4 GB)...
It's a single-user instance, so the total data size it reports is 40 MB now.
Remember: if your server has the new Search enabled, you should decide if you want to be included in it or not (Settings > Public Profile > Privacy & Reach) and tick (or not) the “Include public posts in search results” box.
It’s disabled by default so please enable it to make Mastodon more searchable and useful!! #MastoTip#ElasticSearch
Unsere #Mastodon Instanz wurde gestern auf die neue Version 4.2.0 aktualisiert. :tux: Es bietet viele Verbesserungen, von der Suche, dem Onboarding-Prozess, bis zur Oberfläche und viele mehr!
Darüber hinaus betreiben wir nun auch #ElasticSearch im Hintergrund, also einen Suchindex. Wir werden deshalb auch bald unserem Server mehr Power geben müssen.
Profilbeschreibungen werden nun auch in der #Suche erfasst, genauso wie eure Posts, wenn ihr dies optional einstellt.