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Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search

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Fediverse @lemmy.ml Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search

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Elestisearch is an interesting choice to stick with. Mastodon is already a resource hog as it is.

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- Well, what else are you gonna do? ES is proven and battle tested.
  
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- I admittedly don't follow mastodon development much but wonder if there are plans to allow switching it out. I know firefish allows meilisearch which I've read is far more efficient
  
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It's pretty nice. My instance, ohai.social, implemented it already and it's certainly convenient.

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- Thats so cool. How hard is to setup an instance? Like to i have to buy an actual server?
  
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  Sorry, when I say mine, I mean the one I signed up for, not the one I run
  
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  The hard part isn't setting up an instance. The hard part is getting it well-federated. If it's not well-federated then you're going to be in a party on your own. If you have a fairly large follow list (about 3-5k) it may be better, but overall it'll be a bad experience.
  
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  Not hard at all actually! Their docs are really well done, and I believe someone has recently made an Ansible playbook if that's more your style as well (though I can't endorse it since I haven't tried it yet).
  
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About time. I've been using well-federated Firefish instances to do my searching because that platform supports that feature, but now I won't have to anymore.

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anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn't a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances' posts for search? just me?

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- That was about indexing without people's permission. This new system is opt-in so if you don't grant access in your settings, your posts won't get included.
  
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  That's fantastic news, glad to hear it
  
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- Genuine question: why would people have a problem with making stuff you post publicly searchable?
  
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  If someone wants the ability to control how their data is used, it should be their right.
  
  Who gets to survey the data? There are companies and governments who stand to profit of our existence being thrown into their machines.
  
  There is a violence in that I still haven't figured out how to describe, but people lose their lives over this stuff. That should be enough to warrant such a right
  
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