thomas, (edited )
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Oh - don't forget to review your profile settings. As I've upgraded metalhead.club to the latest Mastodon release 4.2, the search bar has gotten MUCH more powerful.

But: To enable its potential, you need to make your posts searchable (if you like).

Pls boost to make people aware. There's no message / notification / warning about this feature. You should review your settings :)

"Preferences" => "Public profile" => "Privacy and reach", then check "Include public posts in search results"

Coolmccool,
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@thomas Is this the same as /settings/preferences/other 'Opt-out of search engine indexing' - which is on by default?

Don't seem to have the options you mentioned in my UI > Firefox on Windows 11 64-bit (and same on the Windows app )

No sign of a 'public profile' ??

thomas,
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@Coolmccool no, this is another option which Co troler whether your profile is searchable on classic web search engines like Google, Bing etc.

If seems that your instance admin has not updated to the latest Mastodon version. Probably he/she will need more time :)

Fragglemuppet,

@thomas Thanks. I wanted to do that but didn't remember how. I just did it.

thomas,
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(I would have assumed that Mastodon will notify you about the new search future / setting - would have made sense. Obviously the developers didn't come across this idea or decided against it.)

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