I've noticed a lot of chatter about setting up Elasticsearch for Mastodon 4.2's new full text search over the last few days, including what hardware is required, how difficult is it, etc.

So I thought I’d write down my experience, including the hardware I'm running Elasticsearch on for my single user instance:

https://blog.thms.uk/2023/09/mastodon-elasticsearch?utm_source=mastodon

#mastoAdmin #singleUserInstance #FullTextSearch #Elasticsearch