Post 9pFyyabBBCfXxfM8dk by metanol@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9pFyyabBBCfXxfM8dk by metanol@mastodon.social
       2019-11-21T16:17:21Z
       
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       Is there a way to "search by keywords" on #Mastodon ? Hashtags doesn't cut it man, searching by keywords is a must!
       
 (DIR) Post #9pFyyb0heJ5NEpIWQK by metanol@mastodon.social
       2019-11-21T16:51:48Z
       
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       Not being able to "search by keywords" throughout the whole platform is a massive negative-point imo. Anyone knows the reason for this? #Mastodon
       
 (DIR) Post #9pFyybWbjgbepmE09Y by whjms@photog.social
       2019-11-23T08:03:25Z
       
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       @metanol from my understanding it's done to safeguard against harassment. So people discussing a topic can't be easily found unless they use tags
       
 (DIR) Post #9pFyyc7TWc64g7TRcO by whjms@photog.social
       2019-11-23T08:27:18Z
       
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       @metanol that said @tek mentioned that this is actually an instance config, I assume text search only searches the instance's postz
       
 (DIR) Post #9pFyycT6EDOVlBaiK8 by tek@freeradical.zone
       2019-11-23T14:53:18Z
       
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       @whjms @metanol That’s exactly right. Well, the posts that are present on the instance - basically, the federated timeline.
       
 (DIR) Post #9pG46V6C0koWzXSDPk by whjms@photog.social
       2019-11-23T15:50:51Z
       
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       @tek interesting, I wonder if you could effectively get a global search by enabling text search and then connecting to every available relay
       
 (DIR) Post #9pG7Ia5nZQebogioKW by tek@freeradical.zone
       2019-11-23T16:26:39Z
       
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       @whjms Huh, that’s a good question! I bet you could get a lot of coverage that way.