@globcoco It is one of the many perks we have here at Qoto. Full text Search is another -- and I can easily find things I wrote 6 months ago, using a keyword or two.

Most instances don't have that.

@freemo is our admin and a competent one. It's thanks to him and his dedication that we have all that. Boos, meet a new member, a fellow Writer I just invited. 😄

@design_RG

Hi Coralie, very excited to have you here!

@globcoco

@freemo @design_RG
Thank you!😊

@design_RG @globcoco @freemo That's good. NGL though you will probably get hate for the full text search because

@resynth1943

You get hate no matter what you do. I'm more concerned with why and what I can do to address any concerns that might be voiced.

@design_RG @globcoco

@freemo @design_RG @globcoco TBH I agree with that. Especially after people started calling Gargron a racist lmao

@resynth1943

Are you serious? People call Gargron a racist? He is about as far from racist as you can get. If anything he is so anti-racist he sometimes is a bit too quick to judge others as racist (though generally he isnt too bad at that, just a few missteps)... lol they are just fighting among themselves at this point.

@design_RG @globcoco

@freemo
Some on the FediBlock gang DO block mastodon.social, just check Khyrd's kilometer long list.

Reasoning? poorly moderated, their words.

@resynth1943 @globcoco

@design_RG @globcoco @resynth1943 @freemo Well,this list is a bad joke actually.You can get on the list only for using a Tusky fork which is optimized for Pleroma 🤦

@freemo @resynth1943 @design_RG
Why Hate? Why saying this

@resynth1943

Envious and poisonous people, yeah, I have seen them. The FediBlock hash is a frequent place they post.

@globcoco @freemo

@design_RG @globcoco @freemo Uch, I hate those block recommendations. Fucking stupid and a lot of the time they bully people

@resynth1943

Exactly. And they go around Strutting, feeling self important, while doing destructive work. Despicable.

@globcoco @freemo

@resynth1943 You want full text search? I already tried, but I can try again.

@encryptedmessage Do you know Ruby? Lol

@resynth1943 Nope.

@encryptedmessage Same

@encryptedmessage @freemo I'm guessing full text search isn't exactly a config flag lol, right?

@resynth1943 No but there is a docs entry for it.

@encryptedmessage @freemo It was hard enough to change the character limit

@resynth1943 See: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/elasticsearch/ for full text search

@resynth1943

It is, its basically just a config flag and pointing it to an elastisearch instance.

Mastodon was built to support full text search most instances just dont use it.

@encryptedmessage

@design_RG @freemo
I thought the search part was a thing from Pinafore and it is a pretty cool feature!

@globcoco

Nah our search is basically just a configuration option in mastodon.

What makes us unique is we have something like 2+ years of search data and we never clear our cache. So we have way more to search than other instances.

@design_RG

@globcoco

The Search here is a delight for an active user -- me for example, lol...

a standard Mastodon feature, but turned off in most places to save system resources.

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo Is it possible to use it without using too much resources?

@globcoco
It depends on the size and traffic on the instance, and how powerful their system is. I know one, which is a very fast one, small userbase but does not enable this, sadly.

We can always ask, as it's a great help.

And -- you can also do a search here, in one Pinafore Tab, logged into Qoto, find the link you need -- then jump into another tab and use it in an instance without full search.

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo
I don't know if I understood this well😜

@globcoco

Ok -- how to :

* Pinafore in one Tab, with Qoto selected as the active instance. Call this Tab 1.
* Pinafore in a second tab, with [other instance with less Search power] loaded as active instance. Call this Tab 2.

If you need to find something from a Text search do this :

* jump into Tab 1. Select Search.
* Do it, and you will find any results Qoto has on file. Aha -- there it is.
* click on the Dot menu on that result post
* and select "Copy link to Toot"(screenshot added here).

Now you have the URL for that relevant toot!

* jump into Tab 2, and use it.
* you can insert the URL into Tab 2 Search field
* it will retrieve the Toot, and now you can Boost, Reply, Favourite, etc.

Or simply insert the Toot URL you already got, from Tab 1, into a new post or reply in Tab 2.

Voilá, c'est ça.

#QotoJournal ---> Search Power Tips.

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo
Btw, it is strange when I toot smthg, it is like it disappears...

@globcoco

How so, never heard that one before...

@design_RG

@freemo

>> How so, never heard that one before...

I think it's because she is using a new Client, Pinafore, and still getting to know it .
@globcoco

@design_RG @freemo
Yes I have a lot to learn...

@globcoco
we all do -- The Wise ones are the ones who say there's much they don't know.

@freemo

@globcoco

If you find your Topic or Thread in the Local feed, all the sequential posts will show under it.

Also accessible easily from a notification on any of the replies. Expanding into the topic makes it easier to follow indeed.

@freemo

@design_RG @freemo That's what I'm trying to figure out. For example @Dr. Freemo wrote:
@globcoco

How so, never heard that one before..."
And I can't remember what I wrote that made him say that...

@globcoco @freemo open the conversation, in Topic view and it makes more sense.

https://pinafore.social/statuses/104319959931587950

@design_RG @freemo Got it!

@globcoco

Hi welcome. hope you will enjoy here!

@design_RG @freemo