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Jan Johannesson | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @9b033548 I was talking about this yesterday evening. Isn't the search capability in Mastdons pipe? Have you heard anything about this?
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Dan York | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ad629abd Yes, search for Mastodon is in development as part of the upcoming 4.2 release. The pre-release code is already running on mastodon.social and mastodon.online 

I posted a screen shot of what you need to do to opt-in to search: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/110967743685054394

But that's also the thing- people will need to *opt in* to have their posts included in search, and some % of people won't, and it will take time to get enough posts to be effective.

It's hard without a centralized database of posts.