BRicker, 3 months ago

@metin good use of Edit Older Post !

metin, 3 months ago

@BRicker 🙂👍 I love the edit option here on Mastodon. ❤️

VoxofGod, 3 months ago

@metin If this has been covered already my apologies but I just need to run to the farmers market quickly before they run out of bread and want to check if anyone has a quick easy answer to how to search through my likes and forwards?

metin, 3 months ago

@VoxofGod As far as I know, you can't search your favorites at the moment. You can view your favorites by adding /favorites to your instance's URL.

I suspect you also can't specifically search in your forwards only.

metin, 3 months ago

A follow-up post regarding the Mastodon search tips:

If the search options don't work, the reason might be that your Mastodon instance maintainer hasn't implemented Elasticsearch.

Also important: do not use capitals anywhere in the search conditions. E.g.: "From:me" doesn't work.

Further reading:

https://mstdn.social/@DeltaWye/111280982761530295

and

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

Heliograph, 2 months ago

@help hello can I ask if #mastodonAU has #elasticSearch configured? as "from:me" gets no results @metin

xrobau, 2 months ago

@Heliograph @help @metin we do not have search. It has been frowned upon previously, but the tides are changing.

Heliograph, 2 months ago

@xrobau @help 👀 should we have search you think? would it be an effort to have it? @metin

xrobau, 2 months ago

@Heliograph @help @metin It's quite a bit of extra infrastructure and fiddling. I'll have a think about it after the conference is done!

LifeTimeCooking, 2 months ago

@xrobau @Heliograph @help @metin I miss it - even to find my own older posts.

thibaultmol, 3 months ago

@metin is there an 'in:' for just 'from accounts you follow'? Cause 'library' is specifically ones you've interacted with. But I'm trying to search for posts that are just from people I follow but don't have necessarily interacted with.
(and also if it then would be possible to include boosts or not include boost from people I follow)

metin, 3 months ago

@thibaultmol Good question. My tips were distilled from this Mastodon search info page:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

Cassandra, 3 months ago

@metin Oooh, I knew "from:me" but “in:library" is an exciting new option!

nicolegoebel, 3 months ago

@metin doesn't work for me 🤔

metin, 3 months ago

@nicolegoebel See the thread for a discussion. Some Mastodon instances turn out to not support it yet, and the search operators need to be in lowercase.

TildeGartenzaun, 3 months ago

@metin
At least for my instance the "from:" is case snesitive. My phone always starts with a capital letter in text fields and I end up writign "From:" and nothing show up in the search.

metin, 3 months ago

@TildeGartenzaun Yes, see the thread for a discussion about that, and more. 🙂

capsulejay, 3 months ago

@metin Thanks for sharing! This works for me, but only if I make the "f" in "from" lowercase. Initially, my phone kept automatically capitalizing it, causing it not to work.

metin, 3 months ago

@capsulejay 👍

The case-sensitivity has been discussed in the thread.

BlueDot, 4 months ago

@metin

Doesn't work for me in the web interface. Is this something that's implemented in one of the apps? or a new version of Mastodon?

metin, 4 months ago

@BlueDot Have a look at the thread / discussion that followed the post. There are a few factors.

bortzmeyer, 4 months ago

@metin It apparently depends on some option on the instance (on mine, it tells me it is not available).

metin, 4 months ago

@bortzmeyer Have a look at the discussion, you might find more info.

pheraph, 4 months ago

@metin It is worth mentioning that the search string is case sensitive, so “From:me” isn’t working, but lowercase is. So it could be that autocorrect is not your friend in this case.

This could be a nice feature in the @IceCubesApp user interface.

WizardOfDocs, 4 months ago

@metin does this work if your posts are unlisted/otherwise excluded from full text search?

metin, 4 months ago

@WizardOfDocs Good question. Maybe posts don't need to be set to searchable if you're searching in your own posts? 🤷‍♂️ I've got searchability activated.

MnemosyneSinger, 4 months ago

@metin I can only search user names and hashtags. I guess my instance doesn't allow full search.

pascaline, 4 months ago

@metin
Can you also do a search for a post that was in an interaction between you and a specific person?

metin, 4 months ago

@pascaline Good question. Maybe you can find your answer in this article?

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

smeg, 4 months ago

@metin doesn't full text search need to be enabled server side? I found Elasticsearch was extremely resource intense and not especially effective

metin, 4 months ago

@smeg Don't know the specifics, sorry. I only read it in this page when looking if it's possible:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

maxleibman, 4 months ago

@metin Nice! Thanks for that. I do this all the time, but I’ve been using “from:@[username].” You’ve just saved me a bunch of typing every day!

zanzi, 4 months ago

@metin doesn't work. though should have been expected, "Easily" and "Mastodon" never really go together do they

metin, 4 months ago

@zanzi 🙂 Check the thread. It depends on a few factors.

bamboombibbitybop, 4 months ago

@metin Can I search posts I've favorited?

metin, 4 months ago

@bamboombibbitybop I don't know that, sorry. I do know you can view your favorites as a list by entering your Mastodon instance URL followed by /favorites

DeborahLeagueFineArt, 4 months ago

@metin Thank you, good info to have!

weheartgames, 4 months ago

@metin thank you! Do you know if there’s a way to search through only posts that you’ve liked?

metin, 4 months ago

@weheartgames 👍

You can find more Mastodon search operators here:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

hrw, 4 months ago

@metin sometimes I wonder does Mastodon has search at all.

Tried to search for "6502" and did not got even my recent post.

metin, 4 months ago

@hrw Searching for "6502" should result in having a brand new Commodore 64 sent to you. I'll suggest that to the Mastodon developers. 😃

Peace_out_art, 4 months ago

@metin
I tried several variations using this info but it doesn’t work for me.

metin, 4 months ago

@Peace_out_art It works fine here. It might be dependent on your Mastodon instance. Maybe some still run an old version of the Mastodon server software. Did you try it in the Web UI? It might also not work in some mobile Mastodon clients.

Juju, 4 months ago

@metin Looks like it depends on which instance you are. I can't do it.

martinsteiger, 3 months ago

@Juju @metin Exactly.

metin, 3 months ago

@martinsteiger @Juju Yes. Have a look at the post's comments for more info.

Juju, 3 months ago

@metin @martinsteiger I only see two comments because Mastodon federation is really cool and they're the same as mine 😆

metin, 3 months ago

@Juju @martinsteiger I'll write a follow-up post with additional info in a moment.

Kay, 4 months ago

@metin This doesn't seem to work on my instance but maybe I have spaces in the wrong place?

And when you say from:me is that literally the phrasing or should I replace the me with my Mastodon name?

metin, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

@Kay It's simply from:me , and there shouldn't be a space in the mentioned operators or usernames.

Here's a page where you can read more info:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

ModernDayBartleby, 4 months ago

@metin Yeah @Kay this doesn't work for all of us in all instances. It all fails for me in mine too & my instance's admins said they're looking into why it doesn't work for me in mine

Kay, 4 months ago

@metin Thanks for the page link.

It says no spaces so would that mean
from:meSearchTerm? It seems more intuitive to put
from:me SearchTerm but that may be wrong.

Actual examples on layout help.

FWIW I'm old enough to have learnt coding by punching holes in cards. One space wrong and a programme wouldn't run.

metin, 4 months ago

@Kay A space is needed between an operator, such as from:me, and the search keyword(s).

For example:

from:me love

Kay, 3 months ago

@metin Thanks for clarifying too. I'm always relieved if the answer to something not working is because Computer Says No, rather than me being unable to follow simple instructions (which sometimes happens).

metin, 3 months ago

@Kay No problem, I know how uninstructive some tips can be. 🙂 And I grew up with 8-bits computers, copying pages of BASIC listings from paper magazines, only to discover that there was an error somewhere, and the program wouldn't run. 😅