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Written by Kellen Malek on 2025-01-24 at 17:13

[#]Mastodon doesn’t have the best search functionality, but it at least sort of works. Searching posts in #bluesky has been broken for the past week. Just throwing back network errors. And the search in #threads is hot garbage. Considering the vast difference in resources between the platforms, and the fact that Mastodon is searching across the entire fediverse is pretty wild. This definitely seems like the best platform to be on for librarians and other academics.

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Written by sotha1 on 2025-01-24 at 17:18

@kellenjmalek they're also working on a inter-instance search engine: https://www.fediscovery.org

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Written by Mastodon Migration on 2025-01-24 at 18:27

@kellenjmalek

Here is a great little guide on how to use Mastodon search functions:

https://lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mastodon-advanced-search-guide-and-operators

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Written by Frank Heijkamp on 2025-01-24 at 18:33

@mastodonmigration @kellenjmalek That is very useful, thank you.

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Written by Mastodon Migration on 2025-01-24 at 18:39

@alterelefant @kellenjmalek

You're welcome. Really like this Mastodon search guide because it has clear examples you can cut/paste and modify.

Check out the power of combining terms. For instance videos attached to posts that include the word 'music' published before April 24, 2024:

has:video -is:sensitive before:2024-04-25 music

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